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HENRY CLAY LOUDENSLAGER 

(Late a Representative from New Jersey) 

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS 



Proceedings in the House 
May 5, 1912 



Proceedings in the Senate 
March 1, 1913 



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Page. 

Proceedings in the House 5 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D.- 5,7 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Gardner, of New Jersey 10 

Mr. Cannon, of Illinois 15 

Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 18 

Mr. Foss, of Illinois 22 

Mr. Burke, of South Dakota 25 

Mr. Richardson, of Alabama 29 

Mr. Gregg, of Texas 31 

Mr. Roberts, of Massachusetts — 34 

Mr. Butler, of Pennsylvania 38 

Mr. Townsend, of New Jersey 42 

Mr. Foster, of Illinois 43 

Mr. McCoy, of New Jersey 47 

Mr. McKinley, of Illinois 49 

Mr. Kinkead, of New Jersey 52 

Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina 55 

Mr. Moore, of Pennsylvania 58 

Mr. Bates, of Pennsylvania <)3 

Mr. Wood, of New Jersey 65 

Mr. Tuttle, of New Jersey 67 

Mr. Clark, of Missouri 68 

Mr. Browning, of New Jersey 70 

Proceedings in the Senate 76 

Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D 78 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Briggs, of New Jersey 81 

Mr. Burton, of Ohio 84 

Mr. Jones, of Wasliington 87 

Mr. Curtis, of Kansas 89 

Mr. Oliver, of Pennsylvania 91 

Mr. Martine, of New Jersey 93 

Funeral services at Paulsboro, N. J... - 94 



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DEATH OF HON. HENRY CLAY LOUDENSLAGER 



Proceedings in the House 

Saturday, August 12, 1911. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, in whom we live 
and move and have our being, continue, we beseech Thee, 
Thy blessings unto us as individuals and as a Nation. 
Inspire us by the holy spirit of truth to seek diligently 
the highest ideals in all that pertains to life and its far- 
reaching purposes. The night cometh, when no man can 
work. Once more our hearts are filled with sorrow and 
grief by the death of a Member who for years was a con- 
spicuous figure upon the floor of this House. Be very 
near to those who were near and dear to him and comfort 
them by the blessed hope of the gospel. In the spirit of 
the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Mr. Gardner of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, it becomes 
my solemn duty to convey to the House the sad message 
that H. C. LouDENSLAGER, of Ncw Jersey, for more than 18 
years an active, energetic, and highly respected Member 
of this House, has departed this life. 

At a later day I shall ask for a special order fixing a 
time when the House may pay further respect to his 
memorj'. At present I offer the resolutions which I send 
to the Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 

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The Clerk read as follows : 

House resolution 280 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Henry C. Loudenslager, a Representative from 
the State of New Jersey. 

Resolved, That a committee of 20 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the Senate and also transmit a copy thereof to the family of the 
deceased. 

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to, and the 
Speaker appointed as a committee, on the part of the 
House, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Padgett, Mr. Roberts of Massa- 
chusetts, Mr. Butler, Mr. Bates, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. McKinley, 
Mr. Aiken of South Carolina, Mr. Rodenberg, Mr. Camp- 
bell, Mr. Cravens, Mr. Gardner of New Jersey, Mr. Hughes 
of New Jersey, Mr. Wood of New Jersey, Mr. Kinkead of 
New Jersey, Mr. llamill, Mr. McCoy, Mr. Townsend, Mr. 
Scully, and Mr. Tuttle. 

' Mr. Gardner of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I offer the 
following: 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That as a further tribute of respect to the memory 
of the deceased the House do now adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; accordingly 
(at 2 o'clock and r)8 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned 
until Monday, August 14, 1911, at 12 o'clock noon. 



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Proceedings in the House 



Friday, April 5, 1912. 

Mr. Browning. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
for the consideration of the resolution which I send to the 
Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Ordered, That Sunday, May 5, 1912, at 12 o'clock noon, be set 
apart for addresses on the life, character, and public services of 
Hon. Henry C. Loudenslager, late a Representative from the 
State of New Jersey. 

The resolution was agreed to. 

-Sunday, May 5, 1912. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon, and was called to 
order by the Speaker pro tempore, Mr. Hughes, of New 
Jersey. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered 
the following prayer : 

Infinite and eternal Spirit, life of our life, soul of our 
soul, spirit of our spirit, our God and our Father, we 
thank Thee for the blessed assurance that as the child 
born in the manger was an incarnation, so is every child 
born into the world an incarnation. And just so surely 
as the Jesus rose from the dead, so surely is death the 
resurrection for every man. 

" For we know that if our earthly house of this taber- 
nacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house 
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 

" For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being 
burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but 
clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of 
life. 

" Now, He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing 
is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the 
spirit." 



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Blessed truth, which bridges the gulf and makes the 
continuity of life a living reality. 

Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie, 
But that which warmed it once can never die. 

We thank Thee for the splendid personality of the 
Member in whose memory we assemble. Pronounced in 
his convictions, pure in his motives, an indefatigable 
worker, he served his State and Nation with fidelity and 
singleness of purpose. He may not return to us, but we 
shall surely go to him. Be this the comfort of those who 
knew and loved him. 

Be graciously near to the bereaved wife and grandchil- 
dren, and help them to look forward with imperishable 
hope. 

I walk with bare, hushed feet the ground 

Men tread with boldness shod; 
I dare not fix with mete and bound 

The love and power of God. 

In the spirit of Christ, the Lord. Amen. 

The Clerk began the reading of the Journal of the 
proceedings of yesterday, when, on request of Mr. Brown- 
ing and by unanimous consent, the further reading of 
the Journal was dispensed with and the Journal was 
approved. 

Mr. Browning. Mr. Speaker, several Members of the 
House who have signified their intention of speaking 
to-day have unexpectedly been called from the city. I 
ask unanimous consent that any Member who desires 
may print in the Record remarks on the life, character, 
and services of the late Representative Loidenslager. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from New 
Jersey asks unanimous consent that the Members of the 



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House may print remarks in the Record on the late Rep- 
resentative Loudenslager. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

Mr. Rrowning. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following reso- 
lutions, which I send to the Clerk's desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 525 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
Hon. Henry C. Loudenslager, late a Member of tlie House from 
the State of New Jersey. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall stand 
adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the family of the deceased. 



The resolutions were agreed to. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. Gardner, of New Jersey 

Mr. Speaker : Again we are called together to pay trib- 
ute to the life and service of a dead Member. These 
frequent occurrences impress us anew each time with 
the fact of man's mortality. They awaken and revivify, 
also, the recollection of those hundred others whom we 
admired, with whom we were in close friendship, and 
some of whom we loved. The memorial service comes 
as an afterglow to a life's sunset and is often beautiful 
in its reflections. 

To-day wc commemorate the life and woi-k of a citizen 
of my own State of New Jersey. For her interests his 
zeal never flagged. He felt, too, a deep regard for the 
permanent welfare of his country and, actuated by patri- 
otic motives, followed the light as it was given to him 
to see the light. 

In the Fifty-third Congress, which first assembled in 
special session in August, 1893, there were few Republi- 
cans. Most of the Republicans had faced a storm and few 
had survived a tidal wave. Among those taking their seats, 
for the first time, in that session was Henry C. Louden- 
si.AGER, of New Jersey. He was then 41 years of age. 
Along some lines he had studied hard and acquired much. 
Though he was not highly educated, according to the 
common standard, his mind was already disciplined. 
His experiences had been varied and were a valuable 
part of his equipment. The 20 years of his majority had 
been active, even strenuous years. He had not shunned 

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Address of Mr. Gardner, of New Jersey 

the tumult. The circumstances of his election made his 
commission to a seat in this House a certificate of inborn 
power. 

Every wide environment produces its tj'pe, every period 
its men and the institutions of a country their representa- 
tives. And Henry C. Loudenslager, national counselor, 
retaining influence and interest in his State and local 
affairs, was a product of American environment, insti- 
tutions, and opportunity. Our life and institutions, 
measured by the world's standard, have been more than 
successful. Our country has, beyond precedent, been 
fruitful in successful men, in wide variety, and in all 
lines of endeavor. The field of effort here has been less 
restricted; the promise has been greater and the tram- 
mels have been less than elsewhere at any known time. 
The right of initiative has been without class restraint. 
Birth has neither given the rank nor fixed the station. 
Every path leading to a goal has been free to every foot. 
Strength to continue and courage to receive the occasional 
thorn and still press on have been the only requirements. 
Our country has been the field and our flag the emblem 
of individual opportunity. Our great men have risen by 
native power. 

A depressed beginning has not been a bar to distinc- 
tion. A clouded life's morning has not hindered the 
gilding of the noon. Birth and inheritance have not been 
a guaranty nor have poverty and humility been a bar 
to a future for the American child. The shadows cast by 
most of the monuments to our great men are typical of 
the clouded beginning of the lives that the shafts 
commemorate. 

Out of the shade and into the field of activity Louden- 
slager stepped in youth. He was charged with energy, 
inspired by hope, and steadied by determination. He 
was emboldened by a yet shadowy appreciation of his 

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own powers. He was armed by nature to battle with 
the adverse influences that assail the striving young man, 
and he was victor in his earlier struggles for recognition, 
standing, and place, until one day the opposing forces 
parted and he stepped into this Hall to begin that long 
and influential service destined to end only in that tragedy 
which at last overtakes and destroys every life. His 
entrance into the national council, as already suggested, 
was not a fortuitous event It was a recognition. It came 
with the succession of events in a career that had taken 
on momentum. His was a district distinguished for its 
learned and able men, where ambition was not wanting, 
where success meant triumph over forces very worthy 
and very formidable. 

That his service here was marked by energy and indus- 
try goes without statement; that he was gifted with keen 
insight and a penetrating foresight in public matters was 
and is recognized; that he was a counselor of more than 
ordinary sagacity is known to all who knew him well; 
that the interests of his district were thought out, watched, 
and contended for with energj' and success members of 
the committees of the House having them in charge well 
remember. 

Loudenslager's reputation became national; his influ- 
ence great; his ability admired. He had attained recog- 
nition, rank, and influence in the first legislative body in 
the world. He began without the equipment that oppor- 
tunity of learning gives, having been educated chiefly in 
the school of aff"airs, but he' had fought the fight and won. 
He illustrated in his career the opportunity of American 
manhood. 

A notable characteristic of Mr. Loudenslager was faith 
in himself, and he inspired this faith in others. So it 
came about that when he led in a movement his followers 
believed his cff"orts would bring success, if that were pos- 

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Address of Mr. Gardner, of New Jersey 

sible, and they supported him with enthusiasm. If, as 
sometimes happens to all, success was not achieved, they 
accepted failure as inevitable. Their confidence in him 
remained unshaken. 

During Mr. Loudenslager's last years dark shadows fell 
thick across the bright pathway of his life. One after 
the other the children, to whom he had been devoted, for 
whose welfare he felt a worthy father's solicitude, and 
whose promise had been an inspiration to him, were 
called from him and earth. The disease that death took 
up as an arm with which to conquer him added torture 
to his grief. His powers wasted until at length on the 
12th of August, 1911, the heart that never quailed in the 
combat was stilled and the body lost its courageous soul. 

Further upon the tender relations of his domestic life 
I shall not advance. I would not touch the wound that 
the parting leaves. If sweet memories, the balm of sym- 
pathy, devoted friendship, the mending hand of time, 
and the peace that is of heaven may heal or soothe the 
broken heart, let the eifect of these beneficent influences 
be undisturbed. Our expression of grief might fall as 
grating discords upon those afflicted by bereavement more 
deeply than we can feel or know. 

Our departed friend may have left no song to float for 
generations in our national atmosphere. He may have 
left no burning oration that will inspire the ambitious 
youth of coming generations. His efiigy may or may not 
rise on the national landscape, but he has left the long, 
indelible marks of a successful congressional career, 
which has been felt in the Nation and in his State. His 
district has been advanced by his labors. 

His efforts and the crown of success that followed them 
remain an inspiring example to American youth, who 
may need encouragement to break over the bounds of 
their surroundings and create their own opportunities 
for success. 

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Loudenslager's name is in the splendid and imposing 
picture of our new Navy. And if, which may God for- 
bid, it shall come to pass that out of the waywardness 
and greed of nations our proper defense shall require 
that we answer " the last argument of the powers," he 
will be heard in the grim oratory of the American Navy 
when in action it speaks to the world for the perpetuity 
and dignity of our own institutions and the honor of our 
flag. 



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Address of Mr. Cannon, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker: I was very well acquainted with the late 
Representative Loudenslager. In fact, I believe during 
the whole of his service we were colleagues in the House. 
He was a good legislator, a good citizen, and a good 
friend. There are many traits or factors that unite to 
make a good legislator, and perhaps no one individual 
has all the necessary factors to make him, even approxi- 
mately, a perfect legislator; in fact, perfection is in Deity 
alone. 

Some men are good legislators, some men have mag- 
netic force, some men, without knowing why or how, are 
great leaders. Oratory does not necessarily mean effi- 
ciency, and in many instances the individual who by 
nature is equipped for oratory relies upon the tension of 
the vocal chords that set the air to vibrating, and when 
the vibrations cease to travel, and the emotion aroused 
for the moment has subsided, the permanent effect of the 
oratory is not to be found. 

I do not mean by this to discourage the orator, because 
if he has that gift, and knowledge, character, devotion to 
a cause, and other qualities of leadership, he is fully 
equipped to affect his brethren, whether in church or 
state, or, broader than that, in the affairs of the world. 

But, as a rule, my observation has been that in matters 
of legislation, in the courts, in business life, in fact, almost 
everywhere, the men who are efficient and industrious are 
those, as is the common expression out Wesl, and perhaps 
as well in the East, who " have their feet in the soil." By 
that is meant those who have trod the paths that every 
individual must tread who relies upon his own industry 

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and ability for bread — the class of people, especially of 
the United States and largely in the world, who make the 
civilization. 

Mr. Loudenslager was not an orator, but he was a man 
of affairs. He had character, and he was loyal. He under- 
stood that a twofold cord is strong, that a threefold cord 
is stronger, and that a fourfold cord is not easily broken. 
He never believed for a moment that one could issue a 
mandate and the village, or the city, or the township, or 
the county, or the State, or the whole country would 
hasten to obey the command. He cooperated with his 
fellows and was a strong factor in legislation and in the 
affairs of life, because he realized that without coopera- 
tion of all men who have substantially similar views no 
progress can be made. 

Such men as Harry Loudenslager can ill be spared 
from public life, and it is especially unfortunate when 
in full vigor they are called to the great beyond. Per- 
haps I am not an impartial witness, because during 
my service in the House I was in close touch with Mr. 
Loudenslager in the House and in political campaigns, 
but his colleagues, those who opposed him politically as 
well as those with whom he cooperated, admired and 
respected him. 

I do not know that I can with profit say more than I 
have said. If the relatives, friends, and associates of a 
man can say that he did the best he could, that he did 
not let the singletree to which he was harnessed drop 
behind while the force that controlled the other single- 
tree forged ahead, perhaps that is as high praise as can 
be given to any of us in life or after we have crossed over. 
I am not fond of funerals. I am not fond of a memorial 
session like unto this. There was much in the saying 
of the Master, " Let the dead bury their dead." We are 
compelled practically to acknowledge the wisdom of that 



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Address of Mr. Cannox, of Illinois 



saying, otherwise, with two or three generations coming 
and going in each century, the world would be one vast 
world of mourning. I say I am not fond of funerals. I 
am not afraid of them as the years come and go. I was 
at one time when I was a younger man, but I play the 
philosopher now. If the man with the scythe should 
come, I would dodge through the door if possible. I 
would turn and fight him if I were able, but if he pre- 
vailed I should lift my hat and say, " I have had my 
swing." I realize that one of these days there will be 
a funeral to which I have to go, and I shall be quite con- 
tent if when I go my associates can feel as kindly toward 
me as the associates of Harry Loudenslager feel toward 
his memory. 

I do not speculate as to the future. I do not know any 
more of the future than I know of the past. So far as 
the future is concerned, Lowell voiced, I think, the faith 
and the hope of most men in a brief sentence or two 
when he said: 

Every mortal man of us holds stock in the only public debt that 
is absolutely sure of payment, and that is the debt of the Maker 
of this Universe to the universe he has made. I have no notion 
of selling out my shares in a panic. 



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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 

Mr. Speaker: To-day we come to pay a just tribute of 
respect to the memory and the life services of our late 
colleague, Henry C. Loudenslager, once a distinguished 
Member of this House. Upon a memorial occasion like 
this it occurs to me that everyone who has a just appre- 
ciation and a proper respect for the memory of one whose 
character he rightly understood and whose merits he well 
knew would avoid foolish praise and fulsome flattery and 
speak the words of truth as they relate to the character 
of the man to whom we pay the tribute. Henry Louden- 
slager, as we all familiarly called him, was every whit 
of him a man. When I say a man I do not simply mean 
flesh and blood, bone and sinew, but I mean he possessed 
those elements of manhood, those attributes of character, 
those essentials of integrity, of virtue, and of high- 
mindedness that constitute and make up those resultants 
which in a general way we term character, which are in 
truth the distinguishing marks that make the man and not 
the animal. 

Mr. Loudenslager was a man of fine intellect. He had 
the capacity to understand and grasp intelligently the 
questions that presented themselves to him in the faithful 
discharge of his duty as a Member of the Congress. He 
did not grope in darkness; he did not spend his life in 
misunderstandings; he was not satisfied to live on a low 
plane of ignorance and a base conception of those great 
principles, those splendid truths, which exhibited them- 
selves in the national life and national character of the 
American people during the long years in which he served 
as a distinguished Member of this House. Endowed, as 



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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 



I say, by nature with a fine mind, he was capable of rising 
to a high plane of intellectual conception and to take a 
broad and comprehensive grasp of the questions that 
affected the history of the country which he was helping 
to make and to the success of which he was contributing 
by his labors. Not only was he a man of fine intellect, 
but he was a man with a good heart. Base purposes, 
ignominious loves, did not fill his heart. His impulses 
were good; his aspirations were inspired by a noble in- 
stinct. He possessed a heart in which the red blood of 
human kindness flowed, that manifested itself in the con- 
tact and touch of his life with the touch of the lives of 
his fellow beings, a heart that was generous, a heart that 
was kind, a heart that beat in generous sympathy with 
his fellows and his friends. Mr. Loudenslager was a man 
of high ideals. 

Mr. Speaker, after all, the ideals of life are much of 
life. Our ideals are the standards by which we gauge 
our character. Our ideals are the measures that show the 
length and the breadth, the height and the depth, of our 
thoughts and our purposes and our impulses and our con- 
duct As we think we act. The thoughts that come out 
of the heart and intellect move us to action. These acts 
beget our characters, and our characters arc such that 
they either receive the commendations and plaudits of 
our fellows or their condemnation. 

We who knew him can say that the life and character 
of Mr. Loudenslager, late our colleague and associate in 
our work here, were such as to command and generously 
to receive our commendation and our praise. Not only 
was he a man of a good heart; he was a man of generous 
purposes. He did not have malice and vindictiveness and 
hatred. A smile was upon his face, a kind word upon his 
lips, a warm clasp was in his handshake. He was a man 
who had friends because he himself was a friend, gen- 

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erous, kindly, warm-hearted in his association and in his 
disposition. 

For six years I served with him as a member of the 
Committee on Naval Affairs, and I think during that six 
years of intimate association I had an opportunity to 
know something of the make-up of the man. In addi- 
tion to that, for six years we lived in the same hotel and 
were associated day and night in our official relations 
and in our social intercourse. I felt as I stood by his 
open grave that not only could I pay sincerely a tribute 
to his memory, but I felt that I had personally lost a 
friend. 

Mr. Speaker, we had just passed through the winter. 
The trees had given up their foliage. They looked bare 
and dead. There were no signs of life to be seen in 
vegetation. The birds ceased to sing and there seemed 
to be a hush and a silence in nature. The springtime 
came, the life returned with the beauty of the foliage and 
the blooming of the flowers and the inusic of the song 
birds; and so it is, Mr. Speaker, the thought comes to us 
of death and life. Death is the chill of winter. The eye 
ceases to sparkle, the tongue is silent, the ear is leaden, 
the body is motionless, the nmsic is hushed. The grave 
and the resurrection. Only one day separated Calvary 
and Easter, death and life. The Master said : 

Except a grain of wheat perisli It can not grow. 

I hold in my hand a little, rugged, unsightly object, 
which they say is a seed. As long as I hold it there such 
it remains. We place it in the soil; it breaks down its 
tissue; it decays; but out of its death there comes the 
plant that grows into beauty of foliage, beauty of flower, 
and richness of fruitage. Here, sir, wc are circumscribed 
and hampered and bound by the limitations of the flesh. 
Methinks when the flesh breaks down out of it will come 



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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 

the fullness of life that will bear the beauty of its foliage 
and the fullness of its fruitage. Only a broken and an 
emptied vessel, broken that He might heal me, emptied 
that He might fill me — fill me with the fullness, the rich- 
ness of that life, with all of its opportunities unbounded 
and untrammeled, as full as the limitations of eternity, 
as great as the powers of Omnipotence. 

Mr. Speaker, we can only take the word of the poet 
who said: 

I know not •where His islands lift 
Tlieir fronded palms in air; 
I only know I can not drift 
Beyond His love and care. 

And that is the thought we have of our friends who 
command our respect, our reverence, and our love here — 
that over there is the fullness of that life which we crave 
when we say, " 'Tis life, not death, I crave; a richer, fuller, 
grander, nobler, better life I would have." 

For his family I am sure that I reflect the feelings of 
everyone who knew him when I say that to Him who 
numbers the hairs of our head, who permitteth not a 
sparrow to fall to the ground unnoticed, who tempers the 
wind to the shorn lamb — to His love, to His care, to His 
mercy we commend them. 



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Address of Mr. Foss, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker: I, too, desire to pay a brief tribute to the 
memory of our late colleague, Mr. Loudenslager, with 
whom I was associated in my congressional service. 

As has been stated, he became a Member here in the 
Fifty-third Congress, and served until this, the second 
session of the present Congress. He had been elected to 
10 successive Congresses, and had served more than 18 
years. 

Very few Members have enjoyed such a long service 
as this. In looking over the Congressional Directory I 
find less than 10 of the present House who had served 
longer than he at the time of his death. His long service 
demonstrated the confidence which the people of his 
district reposed in him. 

And then, too, his service here was during one of the 
most important periods in the history of this country. 
With the exception of the earlier period of the forma- 
tion of our Government and the great Civil War period, 
there has been more important legislation passed in the 
last 20 years than ever before. Great issues and great 
national problems have been considered, debated, and 
solved. Let me briefly enumerate: Questions of finance; 
the establishment of the gold standard; four revisions of 
the tariff; the annexation of Hawaii; the War with 
Spain and the problems growing out of it; the expansion 
of territory; the acquisition of Porto Rico and the Philip- 
pines, and the government thereof; the enlargement of 
the Army; the building up of the Navy; the reorganiza- 
tion and improvement of our Diplomatic and Consular 
Service; the creation of the Department of Commerce 



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Address of Mr. Foss, of Illinois 



and Labor; the regulation of railroad rates; the exten- 
sion of the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce 
Commission over sleeping cars, express companies, pipe 
lines, telegraph and telephone companies; the establish- 
ment of a special Commerce Court; pure-food act; meat- 
inspection legislation; the establishment of postal savings 
banks; excise tax on corporations; conservation of public 
lands; preservation of national forests; national irriga- 
tion projects; extensive river and harbor improvements, 
greater than ever before; four great States added to the 
Union; and many other things that I have not time to 
mention. Truly, he lived in a great period in the history 
of our country, and when he reviewed his life's work 
as he lay waiting for the final call, he must have con- 
templated with some satisfaction that he had played a 
part, and a strong part, in the doing of things during this 
golden period of our national growth, influence, and 
power. 

A Member's service here might be divided into three 
parts: First, attention to his correspondence and the 
numerous requests made of him, most of them outside 
of his strictly congressional duties. No one paid more 
attention to these than Mr. Loudenslager. He told me 
once that he always wrote the last letter to his corre- 
spondent, even when no reply was expected. He kept 
in the closest touch with his constituents, and hence his 
political strength at home. Secondly, his service on the 
floor. He was always punctual at roll calls. While he 
did- not often take part in debate, yet when he spoke 
he had something to say and to the point, and spoke 
with splendid effect. Thirdly, the work in the commit- 
tees. We all realize how important this has become, 
and more so with the increased membership of this House. 
The time for consideration of questions in the House is 
so short, if it were equally divided, it would not amount 



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lo much more than 30 seconds daily for each Member. 
Each committee is practically a little house in itself. 
Fully nine-tenths of all the bills reported pass without 
material amendment. The analytical study of a measure 
in the committee is regarded as entitled to more weight 
than the largely superficial consideration of it on the 
floor amid the noise and confusion of this large body. 

In the work of the committee Mr. Loudenslager largely 
excelled. His judgment was exceptional. He viewed 
matters from a great variety of standpoints. For many 
years he was a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs, 
and took a great deal of satisfaction in that work, because 
his heart was in it. He was responsible in a large degree 
for the building up of the American Navy. When he 
first became a member of the Naval Committee we had 
a very small Navj' — probably not over 300,000 tons. He 
took delight in building it up to its present tonnage of 
about 1,300,000 tons, and contributed of his thought and 
labor to that end. At least 75 per cent was authorized 
during his membership on the committee. 

Mr. Loudenslager was a very agreeable gentleman in 
everj^ way. He was always cheerful, genial, and com- 
panionable, and n^ade many friends who to-day mourn 
him. 

He was a strong partisan, and fought valiantly for his 
party. He had rare political foresight, and his judgment 
was of great service to his party in political campaigns. 

In his death his constituency lost an able Representa- 
tive, this House a popular Member, his party a tireless 
worker, the Na^7^ a warm friend, and the country a patri- 
otic citizen and excellent public servant. 



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Address of Mr. Blrke, of South Dakota 

Mr. Speaker: I am here to pay my tribute to the mem- 
ory of our deceased colleague, whom I loved, respected, 
and admired, and who was my good friend. 

It happened that when I came to Washington to enter 
upon my duties in the beginning of my service, which 
was the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress, that 
almost, if not the first. Member I met was the Hon. Henry 
C. Loudenslager. It was going to Paterson, N. J., to at- 
tend the funeral of Vice President Hobart that I met him. 
He had then been a Member of the House for some 
years, but he introduced himself, greeting me so cordially 
and during that day showed me so much attention that 
he made me feel as if I belonged in the senior instead of 
the freshman class. All of us remember our first service 
in the House, and we each have a tender spot in our heart 
for some old Member who treated us with kindness and 
showed us some attention and consideration during our 
initiation. I never forgot Mr. Loudenslager's kindness 
toward mc on the occasion referred to, and from that time 
on I was his devoted friend. This trait in his character 
undoubtedly had much to do in making him so popular 
and drawing to him so many friends, and naturally the 
longer he remained here the more friends he had, as he 
possessed the faculty of retaining the friendships he 
formed. In my early experience I often consulted and 
went to him for information and advice, and it wa« par- 
ticularly refreshing to consult him when discouraged and 
troubled because of my inability to accomplish something 
I had hoped I might obtain speedily. He was always 
the same — approachable, patient, and considerate — and 

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would inconvenience himself and spend his time willingly 
to ascertain your trouble and tell you what to do and how 
to do it; and if he saw you were disheartened and dis- 
couraged he would greet you so pleasantly, offering you 
a few words of cheer, that you would leave his presence 
inspired with renewed hope and feeling so much better 
by reason of his words of encouragement and advice that 
what seemed diflicult or hopeless before appeared easy. 

His willingness to do for others was taken advantage 
of, as is usually the case with one of his disposition, and 
much responsibility was placed on his shoulders in addi- 
tion to his ofTicial and personal duties, and undoubtedly 
these responsibilities contributed in a large measure to 
his early demise. He gave many years of faithful work 
in serving his party, being an active member, and later 
secretary of the congressional committee, and no one 
questions but what the success of his party in many of 
the campaigns was due in a large degree to his wisdom, 
his energy, his determined activity, and his strong per- 
sonality. He seemed to know no limit to his endurance, 
and therefore overtaxed his strength. He was a partisan 
in politics, but always fair toward his political opponents, 
and never permitted political considerations to influence 
him in doing what he believed to be right upon matters 
of legislation. The merit of the proposition was his guide 
in determining any measure upon which he had to pass, 
and he apparently knew no friend or enemy in the dis- 
charge of his legislative duty. 

The people of the first district of New Jersey learned 
to love and admire him as a friend and a true man early 
in his career, and, appreciating his sterling qualities and 
his usefulness, they chose him as their Representative in 
this body in 10 consecutive elections. This indeed was 
a great tribute to his worth, and it is a mark of distinc- 
tion that few receive who obtain membership here. It 

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Address of Mr. Burke, of South Dakota 

may be of interest to know that of the present member- 
ship of this House only 9 Members have been elected 
10 or more consecutive terms, and I think that number is 
above the average. 

No district ever had a more faithful Representative, 
and because he was faithful and possessed of a strong 
personality and great ability he was continued. It is 
no easy matter now for one holding public office, espe- 
cially membership here, to maintain the confidence of 
a constituency for any considerable time. There is more 
or less disposition to detract, condemn, and criticize, and 
to destroy reputation, and to impute evil motives to what 
men do in the discharge of public duty, and not infre- 
quently they are maligned and libeled, and one who sur- 
vives it must indeed have character and the confidence 
of his constituency. 

While Mr. Loudenslager was always approachable and 
cordial, he would not tolerate a slight or an insult, and 
would resent it so promptly and with such firmness that 
there would be no likelihood of its being repeated. He 
despised deception and hypocrisy and had only contempt 
for the demagogue. He had his griefs and sorrows, hav- 
ing lost his only daughter after she had grown to woman- 
hood, and later his only son, who was just on the threshold 
of his early manhood; and while those who knew him 
intimately knew that he suffered as only a devoted parent 
can suffer who has been so afflicted, he bore it bravely 
and patiently, and outwardly presented his usual pleas- 
ant manner, greeting you with a smile oftentimes when 
it must have required great effort to do so. 

For a long time he suffered at intervals from the dis- 
ease that finally resulted in his untimely death; and 
while he seemed to know that he might not long sur- 
vive, it apparently made no difference in his happy dis- 
position. He met you as usual, speaking lightly of his 



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condition, and apparently having no fears, and I under- 
stand that he maintained this attitude to the end. 

No matter how much he accomplished or how great 
his success in any undertaking, he never boasted, and his 
extreme modesty was only another of his many virtues. 
He was charitable to the extent of being generous, and 
those who approached him for aid or assistance invariably 
were rewarded. 

I do not believe he ever intentionally did anyone a 
wrong. He was happiest when doing for others; and 
if these qualities do not constitute a religion, they do 
constitute, in my opinion, the requirements of a true 
Christian. He was possessed of a sweetness of disposi- 
tion and a nobility of character such as only few have. 
To his legion of friends who knew him only as " Harry," 
he was always congenial and companionable, and his 
life to them was an inspiration. Living as I did for 
many years at the same hotel, I had an opportunity of 
seeing him almost daily during the sessions of Congress, 
and therefore was in a position to observe him in pri- 
vate life. One of his many attractions that always com- 
manded my admiration was his gentleness, his devotion, 
and his extreme consideration for his estimable wife, his 
manner toward her always being that of a gallant knight 
toward his lady. 

His untimely death is not only a great loss to the dis- 
trict that he so long represented, but also to his State, to 
the country, and to this House. Those of us who were 
privileged to be his colleagues miss his attractive and 
delightful companionship and feel keenly the absence 
of his wise counsel; and so long as any of the membership 
of which he was a part remains here, his high character, 
his great industry', his devotion to duty, and his strong 
personality will ever be remembered. 



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Address of Mr. Richardson, of Alabama 

Mr. Speaker : My acquaintance with Mr. Loudenslager • 
commenced in the Fifty-sixth Congress. During that 
term of Congress I was assigned to the Pension Com- 
mittee, over which Mr. Loudenslager presided as chair- 
man, and for more than 10 years I was ranking Demo- 
cratic member of the committee, and by virtue of that 
position I was a member of the various conferences with 
Mr. Loudenslager that took place between the Senate and 
the House of Representatives Pension Committees. In 
that capacity our relations as public servants were inti- 
mate, and I had unquestioned opportunities to observe 
and know the man. I do not hesitate to say now that 
there are but few official positions among Members of 
Congress that hourly tests the innate sense of justice and 
the obligations to duty more than does the position of 
chairman of the Pensions Committee. Mr. Loudenslager 
was in eveiy respect a kind, generous, tender-hearted man. 
He knew, in a broad, comprehensive manner, that the duty 
of the committee over which he presided was to revise 
the unfavorable action of the Commissioner of the Bureau 
of Pensions, which apparently gave him great discretion. 
In the performance of this delicate duty Mr. Louden- 
slager was always guided by the law and established 
precedents. 

He was firm and decided in his convictions, and while 
his generous heart would cause him to listen to the pa- 
thetic appeals of the sorrow-stricken widow and her help- 
less children, yet he would not depart from the stern 
dictates of the law. I honored him as an honest, just, 
and good man. In his life as a public servant he was 

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Address of Mr. Richardson, of Alabama 

faithful, conscientious, and vigilant in attention to his 
public duties. He recognized, without the touch of hu- 
miliation or servility, the true obligations existing between 
a Representative and the constituents who honored him 
with public position. In these relations he would spurn 
subserviency or the sacrifice of his independence. Free 
from stubborn persistence, he was always ready and will- 
ing to listen patiently to those who differed with him. 
His constituents honored and loved him, and he went to 
his untimely grave with the great and comforting com- 
mendation of his grateful constituents and his admiring 
colleagues from all sections of the Union, " Well done, 
good and faithful servant." 

In his congressional career H. C. Loudenslager made 
but few speeches. He was given to but few words on 
the floor of the House, but when he felt it was his duty 
to speak few Members could express themselves more 
vigorously and in more apt and expressive words. 

Mr. Loudenslager not only enjoyed the confidence and 
respect of the Members of this House, regardless of party 
alignments, but in his own party and with the national 
leaders he was honored with high position, on account of 
his fidelity to his party and by reason of his fine judgment 
and sagacity as a political leader. For some years prior 
to his death, even midst the discharge of ofTicial duties, 
he was a great sufferer from the encroachments of bad 
health; but he was reluctant to give up, and he stood at 
his post at the jeopardy of his health. His friends saw 
the ravages that disease was rapidly making on his im- 
paired constitution, and he resisted their importunities 
until he truly yielded up his life to the responsibilities of 
his duties as the public servant of his people. 

But he has gone to his eternal rest, followed by the 
profound regrets of his indulgent constituents, a grateful 
public, ana his devoted colleagues. 



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Address of Mr. Gregg, of Texas 

Mr. Speaker: In no language is the certainty of death 
more tersely and graphically expressed than in the Arab's 
saying, " Death is a black camel which kneels at every 
mean's door." 

In nine years of service in this body I can but recall 
how often has the dread summons sounded and how many 
of our colleagues have gone over there. 

While Henry Clay Loudenslager stood on the summit 
of life and was in the bloom of his faculties he heard his 
Great Captain's call. He ascended on high. It has al- 
ways seemed to me that the incompleteness of life, its 
disappointments, and its unrealized ideals are the strong- 
est proofs of the immortality of the soul. Surely in the 
divine economy of human life there must somewhere be 
a state or condition where the blasted hopes and ungrati- 
fied aspirations of our life here are made good and man's 
heroic efforts are ultimately crowned with success. So 
we all believe is the finished destiny of our deceased 
friend and colleague. Henry Clay Loudenslager did not 
live in vain, nor did he die without leaving behind him 
the fragrant memory of a life well spent and a career 
which illustrates the ennobling possibilities of American 
life. Our friend was born amid lowly surroundings. 
His youth was spent as a strong and sturdy boy on his 
father's farm. Before he had reached his majority he 
left his humble tenement and launched in a business 
career. In 10 years we find him elected to and discharg- 
ing the arduous duties of county clerk in his native 
county. Such was the impress he made by the efficient 
and successful administration of the difficult duties of 

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that responsible office that he was reelected without oppo- 
sition. A.t the expiration of his second term he was 
elected by an overwhelming majority as a Representative 
in the Congress of the United States in the Fifty-third 
Congress. For nine successive, continuous terms he was 
reelected as Representative of the first congressional 
district of his native State — New Jersey. 

There are at least two well-defined classes in the House 
of Representatives. First are those Members who have 
the divine gift of eloquence, who are great in debate, and 
who, on all the acute living issues which stir their coun- 
trymen, can blow a trumpet call to their party followers. 
This class bulks large in the public vision. They fill the 
speaking trumpet of fame and are cheered in the battle 
by the exultant shouts of their party followers and 
applauding colleagues. 

But there is a larger and more useful class of Repre- 
sentatives. The hard-working, tireless, industrious Rep- 
resentative, who, unappreciated, unnoticed, uncheered, 
slaves at his work for his country's good through the long 
day and far into the silent watches of the night. He 
never attracts popular attention and never wins popular 
applause, but all his colleagues can testify to the tran- 
scendent importance of his service. Henry Loudenslager 
was a typical representative of this class. He brought 
to the discharge of his duties all the virtues of his sturdy 
ancestry. 

He was for years chairman of the Committee on Pen- 
sions. While he was warm and mellow hearted, he was 
inexorably just. He was never the slave of sentiment. 
Duty was the presiding genius of his life. How well and 
faithfully he discharged the duties of the chairmanship 
of that vexatious committee the public never knew. But 
all his colleagues know. For long years he was a leading 
and influential member of the important Committee on 

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Address of Mr. Gregg, of Texas 



Naval Affairs. For six years I was associated with him 
on that committee, and I cheerfully hear testimony to his 
fidelity, to his unwearied industry, and to his hroad and 
liberal views as to the policies which should be carried 
out in the administration of naval affairs. He felt a 
patriot's genuine pride in his country's grandeur, and 
thought, mistakenly, I believe, that the only adequate 
expression of the greatness of his country was a large 
and magnificent Navy, a Navy which could not only 
defend us against all foes, but one which would strike 
with awe all foreign nations. 

He had a talent for business and a genius for organiza- 
tion. In recognition of his eminence in these qualities 
he was elected as secretary to the Republican congres- 
sional committee for two terms— 1906-1908. An efficient 
secretary to a campaign committee is far more useful 
and necessary than its titular head. Under Mr. Louden- 
slager's efficient management, and largely through liis 
efforts, his party was victorious in the two elections of 
1906 and 1908. 

In 1910, just after he had been triumphantly reelected 
to the Sixty-second Congress, in the high tide of success, 
in the flush of victory, he was suddenly stricken. He 
realized at once that the end was death. Heroically, 
without hope, he bore the agony of a long and painful 
sickness. Realizing that the end was near, he returned 
to his home, and there, on the 12th day of August, 1911, 
surrounded by his loved ones, without a murmur, un- 
shudderingly, he boarded that mysterious bark which 
touches at every man's port, and then, we trust, he sailed 
through radiant seas to the far-away, happy islands of 
the noble, the true, and the blessed of all the ages. 



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Address of Mr. Roberts, of Massachusetts 

Mr. Speaker: After many years' acquaintance with 
Henry C. Loudenslager, I can look back upon our friend- 
ship with no other feeHng than joy and gladness that I 
was privileged to know, and know well, so strong and 
true a character. He was not a man who bestowed his 
trust and confidence lightly. With him friendship had 
a real meaning, and only after deliberate study did he 
take one to his bosom and call him friend. That rela- 
tionship once established, he was all that the word 
" friend " implies. He had many excellent and, in this 
day, somewhat unusual qualities. That which most 
strongly appealed to me was the tactful and kindly way 
he had of pointing out one's failings or shortcomings, 
and this took courage of the highest order. His admoni- 
tions were never given in an offensive manner, but as 
from a father to a son, with a genuineness that made one 
love him all the more and feel that he was a friend indeed. 
Nor was he always looking for flaws to correct. He was 
equally generous in according praise where merited, and 
never in any fulsome or ostentatious way. 

Another of his qualities, and one which exemplified his 
breadth of mind, was the readiness with which he ac- 
corded credit to or acknowledged ability in those in 
opposition to him. He had a keen discrimination in this 
respect, and was able to subordinate his own antipathy 
to such a degree that he could survey the field calmly 
and discern the good which would be lost to the sight of 
the ordinary man because of his personal prejudice or 
rancor. 



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Address of Mr. Roberts, of Massachusetts 

Mr. LouDENSLAGER was an extremely intense man, 
equally so in his work or his play, and coupled with his 
intentness was a fixedness of mind and a tenacity of pur- 
pose that enabled him to successfully accomplish almost 
any task which he undertook. When once embarked 
upon an undertaking, he was tireless in his efforts, and 
so great was his energy that he was always a host in him- 
self in its behalf. His mind was singularly keen, clear, 
and analytical. Had he cultivated the art of public 
speaking, his mellow voice, splendid physique, sound 
logic, and fine gift of imagination would have made him 
a formidable debater and a powerful orator. In com- 
mittee or before small gatherings he was always ready, 
fluent, and convincing, but he rarely spoke before large 
audiences, seeming to distrust himself when in the pres- 
ence of so many, a distrust which was wholly imaginary 
and without foundation. The few times I have heard 
him speak in Congress and before large gatherings gave 
ample evidence of the latent power within him, and his 
words were couched in language so sincere, logical, force- 
ful, and well chosen as to lift his effort to the plane of 
real oratory. 

In politics he was an uncompromising partisan. A 
firm believer in government by parties, he was a hard 
and resourceful fighter for party principles and party 
success. To him his party was above any individual in 
it, and to it he gave freely, fully, and gladly the best of 
effort and judgment that was in him, often to the jeopardy 
of his own personal success and to the certain detriment 
of his health. Had his devotion to his party been less 
his years among us would have unquestionably been pro- 
longed. Not only did he achieve distinction as a worker 
in the party organization, but in its councils as well; for 
he had a singularly clear conception of the trend of 
national events which caused his judgment to be sought 



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by party leaders and his advice carefully considered and 
in many instances followed. 

As a legislator he was broad-minded, liberal yet not 
extravagant, and extremely conscientious. Surrounded 
and beset, as are all legislators, by selfish interests, each 
looking for its own advancement, he could not be swerved 
from his conception of right and duty by any appeal to 
friendship or threat of personal disadvantages; yet no 
man I have ever known in public life was more suscep- 
tible to an appeal based on friendship than was Henry 
C. Loudenslager. 

He was devoted to the interests of the district he so 
long and so usefully represented, proud of the State of 
his nativity, untiringly seeking to advance her to a place 
of still greater prominence in the sisterhood of States, 
and New Jersey and the first congressional district of 
that State may well mourn the termination of his long 
and honorable career. 

Guile, deceit, treachery — three failings only too com- 
mon in humanity — were utterly abhorrent to his nature, 
and lie never hesitated to denounce cither when known. 
His word was more sacred to him than his bond. When 
once he announced his attitude or gave his promise, there 
never was any doubt as to where he would be found when 
the time for action arrived. He always stood without 
hitcliing, and that means a great deal in the everyday 
affairs of life as well as in politics and statecraft. 

His cheery greeting, genial smile, and strong, true hand- 
clasp were never absent, even in the late days of his final 
illness, and made all who came in contact with him feel 
the sincerity and genuineness of the man. 

After all is said and done, the one commanding and 
domineering quality which makes a man stand out con- 
spicuous among his fellows and causes him to be remem- 
bered long after all others have faded from the mind is 



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that of absolute and unwavering loyalty. This was pre- 
eminent in the character of Henry C. Loudenslager. He 
was loyal to his country and its institutions; he was loyal 
to his high sense of public duty; he was loyal to his 
friends. To have known him was but to respect him; 
to have known him well, to admire him; to have known 
him intimately, to love him with a love that lingers long 
and with increasing fragrance in the memory of those 
admitted to his intimate friendship. 



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Address of Mr. Butler, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. Speaker: This man possessed so many qualities 
that he was always thought of by us as a friend. We 
treated him as a friend, and he never failed to respond 
in kind. When he came to Congress a score of years 
ago he brought with him a disposition to kindness, a trait 
which came to him with his birth, one that never can be 
acquired with the fullness possessed by him. As our 
knowledge of him developed, so did our liking for him 
grow until we reached a period in our acquaintance when 
we felt ourselves privileged to give him the lovable name 
of " Loudy," the nickname familiar to every one of us 
who sat with him during his membership. 

In this feeble tribute to Harry Loudenslager's memory 
I have no desire to add to his merits, and at the same time 
I hope I shall in no way take from them. The effort to 
speak of one toward whom our affections constantly drift 
with candor and according to his deserts is not without 
difficulty because of the inclination which our impulses 
give us. 

I knew Harry Loudenslager before I came to Congress; 
our districts lay opposite each other across the Delaware 
River. We met here as neighbors with good feelings 
toward each other. He held out his hand to me and 
asked to be my friend and wished my friendship in return. 
The compact was made with promptness and kept with- 
out an interruption during our service of almost 15 years. 
His constituency, like that of my own. naturally had inter- 
ests which our combined efforts could well serve. His 
people manufactured, so did mine. Their product was 



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similar, and therefore the same law affected both. They 
alike asked for an extension of commerce, and we labored 
together for their common benefit. Together they de- 
manded increased internal improvements, and again their 
interests were mutual. The fields of our agricultural 
constituents yielded the same product and was sold in the 
same market. They visited each other across the river, 
and in some instances became attached through the bonds 
of matrimony. Thus our labors, lying along common 
lines, were oftentimes divided, of which my friend always 
assumed the larger share. I went to him with all my 
troubles, which he took upon himself with a cheerfulness 
that shamed the selfishness within me. I received from 
him a willing assistance which I was anxious but unable 
to return. When I complained, he cheered; when I 
despaired, he encouraged. 

His time belonged to everybody but himself, and it was 
always used by others without the slightest respect for its 
owner. His service was rendered without bargain or 
expectation of return. How he accomplished so much 
in the space of time given man to work was the wonder 
of us all. 

His purse had no string to it and he lived wath the 
knowledge that his " shroud would contain no pocket." 
He shared to the extent of his means and with a spirit 
that makes generosity real. His cordiality furnished a 
reason for the attention which he always had. He would 
not live alone; he would not be alone. He had no trouble 
finding companionship; indeed, it was always ready. 
Yes; it awaited him. 

With all this lovable spirit, Harry Loudenslager had 
a courage that propped the weak and led the hesitating. 
His arguments were convincing and always at hand, as 
he would use the little familiar sentence, " Now, wait a 
bit." A man of strong sense, with a wit natural to himself 

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alone, and armed with facts, he was an adversary" who 
was seldom selected the second time. 

Mr. Speaker, what can I say of this man which is 
unknown to all those who live in his little world? They 
knew him to hate a lie; so did we who lived with him 
here. They had learned of his candor; it was soon made 
familiar to us. They appreciated his energy that never 
wearied; we soon discovered it and then employed it in 
affairs that were ours, not his. They felt liis influence 
over men; those of us who strove to promote or defeat 
some measure, sought it for the good of the cause we 
advocated. 

This man worked for the common good, and his efforts 
received the response which comes from grateful hearts. 
I know that he demanded justice at the same time that 
he dispensed it. In nothing did he pretend. He worked 
for a constituency that employed as well as one that was 
employed. He never feared contests between capital and 
labor, because he was strong enough to be fair to both. 
Where interests conflicted, he solved the problem as his 
good judgment directed, having but one regret, that his 
conclusions might have brought disappointment or 
inflicted pain. It will always be said of him that no 
Member of tlie House, during lais time, was more 
generally useful in disposition of its business than he, 
and but few had greater influence over its conclusions. 

Harry Loudenslager was a Republican of the old style. 
He believed in the rule of the majority and always cheer- 
fully submitted to it. When beaten, he raised his hat to 
his adversary, and wlicn successful he naturally 
demanded the same treatment in return. He never left his 
party or its councils, but always obeyed its decrees. He 
was one of the active partj' men of New Jersey who 
assisted in placing the majorit>' in that State on the 
Republican side. He took his political baptism during 

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this struggle. "VYhile not a political intolerant, from 
party questions and party issues he never wandered. 
On tariff questions he was not only zealous but an 
extreme partisan. He sincerely believed in the doctrine 
of protection, and no argument could persuade him to 
abandon views he formed during the great political 
struggle for party supremacy, which have made New 
Jersey famous. His party stood by his leadership for 
more than a score of years; God's hand removed him from 
it. His battles have been furious, but no man appeared 
who could overcome him. Much of his strength, which 
was unusual, is attributable to those traits of character 
of which I have spoken — loyalty to cause, with a fellow 
feeling for its enemy. 

The domestic life of my friend was simple and sincere. 
He had many sorrows which at times greatly depressed 
him. As he gave his full share in his official life, he did 
the same in the confines of his family, to which he was 
greatly devoted. His public life was in the open, and his 
frankness disclosed his reflections; yet with this, no man 
ever said that he abandoned his friend or violated the 
confidence of him who gave it. 

Harry Loudenslager made no pretense to genius or 
great leadership of men. He did not claim to rank among 
the statesmen who sit in select councils where policies 
are proposed affecting all the men and all the things of 
the world. But he did reign among the men who accom- 
plished results and who at this time — one year since he 
went away — speak of him with emotion and with recol- 
lections that are tender and lasting. Only two days ago 
at a luncheon in the House restaurant, where his personal 
friends had gathered, his name was mentioned, when 
the remark was made " Don't disturb the poor fellow; 
he was tired when he left and has earned the rest which. 
God has given him," 



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Address of Mr. Townsend, of New Jersey 

Mr. Speaker : It has often seemed to me that a fair and 
just measure of a man's good qualities may be taken from 
tlie estimate in which the man is held by his own people — 
the men, the women, the children, who are his neighbors. 
This thought was much in my mind when, with my col- 
leagues from this House, we went to pay the respect of 
Congress to the memory of the late Henry C. Louden- 
slager. As we drew near the residence of our late brother 
we could not help being impressed with the many signs 
of deep and general sorrow for their departed friend 
shown by all classes of the people in that neighborhood. 
They who knew him best and knew him longest were the 
ones who grieved most over his loss. Not only in that 
immediate neighborhood where the man had lived, but 
throughout the district on that day, we saw these unusual 
signs of sorrow and of respect for the memory of the 
departed. That, Mr. Speaker, is to my mind as fine a 
tribute as can be given to a man's character; it is a thing 
we all strive for and value most after we attain it — the 
esteem and liking of those who form our own local com- 
munities. It was a tribute to the character of Henry C. 
LouDENSLAGER which could not be higher, which could 
not be of more consolation to the members of his family. 
There must of necessily be much that is good, much that 
is gentle and kind, much that is high-spirited and just in 
a man to earn and keep in so marked a degree, as we 
observed that Mr. Loudenslager had earned and kept, 
the high esteem and affection of all those who, throughout 
his life, had best opportunity to judge him for what he 
really was. 



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Address of Mr. Foster, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker: We are gathered here to-day to pay the 
tribute of respect to our departed colleague, Mr. Henry 
Clay Loudenslager. We are again reminded that there is 
an end to human life; that sooner or later death must 
come to all; and we see those of our friends who are 
active to-day gone to their rest to-morrow. We then ask. 
Is this all of life? Is this the end of mankind? Cer- 
tainly no one here to-day feels that all of our existence 
ends with the grave, but that we must look beyond this 
world to see the perfect man. This life is short, yet we 
are reminded that men accomplish much good in the 
world in what we call the short space of time of man's 
life. It is men who spend their lives trjdng to make the 
world better; men who are ti'ying to do something to help 
mankind; men.who stand for high ideals, who look ahead 
and beyond self, who are altruists in the fullest sense of 
the term. It is not always the one who lives the longest 
who accomplishes the most, but it is he who lives the 
best, and who lives so that the world is made better by 
his life well spent. We must first act by starting out to 
be true and honest with ourselves; we may deceive others, 
but ourselves we can not deceive. When the sunset of 
our lives comes and the twilight of death gathers about 
us, we should have the consciousness of mind that leads 
us to know that we have accomplished something in the 
world; that our lives have not been lived in vain. 

On my entrance into Congress it was my fortune to be 
placed on the Committee on Pensions, of which Mr. 
Loudenslager was then the chairman. During my four 
years of service on that committee I found him kind and 



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considerate of every Member; always ready and willing 
to give everyone a fair hearing; and never did he show 
the least partiality, whether Democrat or Republican. 
He was alwaj's fair to everyone ha^^ng a case before the 
committee, and the most humble Member of the House 
always had just as fair a hearing as the most prominent. 
He was an ideal chairman in the conduct of the business 
coming before a committee. Mr. Loudenslager was always 
true to his convictions. He did not try to deceive anyone. 
He was always kind and courteous in his treatment of all. 
He was a strong partisan, but that did not cause him to 
show any of it in his treatment of any member of the 
opposite party. 

I am always glad to say a good word for a true man, 
one who had the interest of his fellow man at heart; one 
who was ready and willing to say and do something that 
would help those who needed help. Who of us does not 
at some time need some help of those with whom wc 
come in contact? The one who is ready to say something 
and never ready to do is not always the best, but it is 
he who is ready to help, as well as to say what should be 
done; not to only say but to do is w^hat counts. Some- 
times persons make great professions of their love for 
mankind, but with only the selfish motive — with the hope 
of doing something for self. 

Our success in life depends on what we stand for and 
advocate. The question should come to us all. Have 
we done the best we could for the world, and have we 
done our full duty to mankind? It is not the amount of 
money we may accumulate in this world that makes us 
successful, but it is how well the money that has been 
accumulated has been used. Some men are very rich in 
properly, yet poor in the success of life; theirs have really 
been lives of poverty. All their lives they have struggled 
to make one more dollar to add to what they already 



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have, yet after it is all over and they pass from this earth 
they have not been missed, and no particular act of theirs 
can be pointed to as one intended to make the world 
better. But the generous, whole-souled man whose heart 
beats in sympathy for his fellow man, who is ever ready 
to do something for others and never misses an oppor- 
tunity to help some one, is the person who is appreciated 
and really counts for something. We must not forget that 
things in this world do not come to us while we sit down 
and wait, and one who does so will find the procession 
has moved by and he is left behind. Things in this life 
are not worth much except what we work for ourselves. 
God has placed us on this earth endowed with certain 
talents, not all the same, it is true, but we should make 
the best of what we have. We never know how much we 
can do for the world until we go out and make an honest 
effort. I can not better express this idea than to quote 
these beautiful lines — 

Trust in thine own untried capacity 

As thou wouldst trust in God Himself. The soul 

Is but an emanation from the whole. 

Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, 

Vast and unfathomed as the greatest sea; 

The silent mind o'er diamond caves may roll; 

Go seek them — but let Pilot will control 

Those passions which thy favoring winds can be. 

No man shall place a limit on thy strength; 

Such triumphs as by mortals may be gained 

May yet be thine if thou wilt but believe 

In thy Creator and thyself. At length 

Some feet will tread the loftiest heights attained; 

Why not thine own? Press on; achieve; achieve. 

There is no place in this world for the person who 
thinks he can slip through this life, have a good time, do 
nothing, and live off the labor of others. Every young 
man should realize that there is no room for anyone who 



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is not willing to make an honest effort, who is not willing 
to work for what he gets. Our colleague started in life 
on the farm, he knew what it was to work; he was taught 
that when a young man, and the lesson of industry he 
did not forget. He did his duty in every position in 
which he was placed. Let us this day remember that 
we must live so that the world will be better for our 
having contributed something to help mankind, and when 
we are gone our friends can truthfully say a good man 
has passed to his reward. 
We should not forget that — 

We live in deeds, not years, not breaths; 

In feelings, not in figures on the dial. 

We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives 

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 



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Address of Mr. McCoy, of New Jersey 

Mr. Speaker: It is with some hesitation that I venture 
to say anything upon this occasion about one with whom 
it was not my pleasure to have had a personal acquaint- 
ance, but it not inappropriate even under such circum- 
stances to join in the tribute being paid to-day to the 
memory of one who for so many years was honored by 
one of the districts of my State by an election to this 
House. 

At the beginning of the extra session, a little more than 
a year ago, the grip of that illness which resulted in Mr. 
Loudenslager's death was firmly fixed, and he did not 
thereafter come into contact with any of his old friends 
here nor with those who were then for the first time 
sitting as Members of Congress, but that he was being 
missed by those old friends of his was soon known to the 
new Members, especially to those from his own State, 
and when the end came the expressions of sorrow were 
many and genuine and not confined to Members on his 
own side of this House. 

I think probably there are few places where the meas- 
ure of a man is more completely taken than right here 
among Members of this House, and it is said of Mr. 
LouDENSLAGER that uo man had more real friends, not 
only among his party associates but among those of the 
opposing political faith. 

Some one may say that Members with whom I have 
talked were mindful of the maxim, de mortuus nihil nisi 
bonum, but the expressions of praise of Mr. Louden- 



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SLAGER are so hearty and of sorrow at his loss so genuine 
that I am certain that they were uttered without restraint 
or reserve. 

To those to whom Mr. Loudenslager's loss means so 
much more than it can mean to anyone else it must be 
an infinite satisfaction that none here named him but 
to praise. 



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Address of Mr. McKinley, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker : Those of us in this House who were asso- 
ciated with Henry C. Loudenslager in the daily work of 
Congress, the various activities of committee duties and 
general parliamentaiy proceedings, who were thrown in 
contact with him in political contests, whether as friend 
or adversary, and who shared his companionship when 
cares of state were relaxed, can truthfully pay tribute to 
him as a competent public servant, a political opponent 
worthy the steel of any man, a generous foe and a glorious 
friend — in fact, a true and admirable man in every sense 
of the word. 

During his long term of service in this House he won 
the friendship of men of all parties, who were attracted 
to him by his worth and personal merits and paid him the 
respect thus commanded regardless of party afliliations. 
One of his most notable traits of character was a down- 
right straightforwardness which never deviated. It was 
either " yes " or " no " with him, and whichever it was 
the verdict was to be depended upon to the end. 

He had an extraordinarily clear sense of public duty, 
and he adhered to it rigidly. He believed that he owed it 
to his constituents and to his countrj' to fulfill the tasks 
allotted to him, and he made it his daily concern to do so. 
He was methodical to a degi-ee and a punctual and con- 
stant attendant upon sessions of committees and of the 
House. While he was chairman of the Committee on 
Pensions he applied his orderly and methodical business 
mind to the details of every case before the committee and 
saw to it that justice was done every applicant, however 
humble, 

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As a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs he took 
a deep and sincere interest in the upbuilding of the Amer- 
ican Navy, and was one of the most indefatigable workers 
in the task of framing the great appropriation bills. He 
was devoted to the interests of his State and his district. 
I venture to say that no Member of this House had a wider 
personal acquaintance among his constituents or was 
more attentive to their demands and welfare. 

He was a stanch believer in the principle of a pro- 
tective tariff which would safeguard American industries 
and bring the greatest meed of prosperity to American 
workingmen. As a business man he was level headed 
and conservative, and in politics the same; but a catholic 
disposition gave him a wide tolerance of the opinions of 
others. Indeed, it was this catholicity of nature which 
won him friendship in the opposing party that endured 
to the day of his death. 

From close personal association with him in the direc- 
tion of Republican campaigns for the election of Members 
of Congress, I am competent to speak of his invaluable 
services to his partj' — work which indeed shortened his 
days and, I believe, hastened his untimely end. In 1906 
he was secretary' of the Republican congressional cam- 
paign committee, and when James S. Sherman, the chair- 
man, was taken sick upon Mr. Loudenslager fell all the 
duties of the chairmanship. In 1908 and 1910 he was in 
full charge of eastern headquarters. 

He was a man of remarkable political judgment and a 
master of political diplomacy. He had the rare faculty 
of composing differences among the factions and bringing 
men together. In campaigns he never asked anyone to 
do more than he was willing to perform. He was the first 
man to take up the work in the morning and the last to 
leave at night. A splendid physique enabled him to do 
more than ordinary men could accomplish, and he taxed 



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it unmercifullj' in the interests of his party and of his 
countrj'. 

He possessed a rare personal charm of manner, the 
natural result of a kindly and generous disposition. He 
enjoyed dispensing hospitality, and it gave him pleasure 
to make others happy. It must not be understood that 
this inferred any weakness of character, for he could be 
adamant upon occasion and stern and inflexible when 
circumstance required. 

Another admirable trait of his nature was his demeanor 
of rare and punctilious courtesy toward everyone, re- 
gardless of rank or social position. Indeed, the humbler 
the individual the more marked would be his considera- 
tion of that person's feelings and rights. 

He was one of God's noblemen and a friend to man- 
kind. In his death his State and country' lost a worthy 
son and his friends a companion whose presence will be 
missed, but whose memorj' and influence will survive long 
afterwards. 



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Address of Mr. Kinkead, of New Jersey 

Mr. Speaker: I have always regarded the custom by 
which the House of Representatives sets aside a few 
hours in which Representatives may pay a tribute to 
the memory of those who pass away while in the service 
of the House as a beautiful and touching one. 

During the few years that I have been in Congress I 
have seen the hand of death strike down a De Armond 
and Missouri weep for her illustrious son. 

Three times has death visited the delegation sent here 
by Tennessee — a Brownlow, a Gordon, and a Taylor have 
passed to the great beyond. 

Kansas has mourned the judicial Madison, and the 
Keystone State lamented the loss of George W. Kipp and j| 
that kindly old gentleman so long the father of the 
House, Gen. Henry H. Bingham. Vermont has been 
visited and death called the genial Foster to his reward. 
Nor does the list, Mr. Speaker, end here. 

On this present sad and solemn occasion we have 
gathered to pay our tribute to the memory- of an honored 
son of New Jersey. To few, indeed, was it given to serve 
our State for greater length in Congress, and still fewer 
gave her a more distinguished and honorable service in 
this House. 

Henry Clay Loidenslager was first elected to Congress 
in 1892, and if he had lived until the present session 
expired he would have served his district for 20 
consecutive years. 

If I were to state his dominating characteristic, I 
believe I would .say that it was absolute frankness. No 
one ever doubted where he stood, and he always made 

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his fight in the open; intensely loyal to his friends, but 
always fair to his opponents. He was particularly kind 
and gracious to new Members, especially to those coming 
from his own State, and the fact that one belonged to a 
party other than his own did not make the slightest 
difference with him; he was always ready to aid a 
younger Member in every way that was in his power, 
affable and ever accessible when his advice or aid was 
needed. 

Mr. Loudenslager rarely spoke in the House, but when 
he did address Congress he always received close atten- 
tion, having the faculty of being able to express himself 
in concise, clear terms and always to the point. He was 
ever watchful of the needs of the people of his district 
and of his State, always prompt in his attention to con- 
gressional duties, and singularly successful in obtaining 
the Federal assistance requested by his people. 

Few men that I have ever known had his facility for 
making and retaining friends. His candor and honesty 
won for him the respect and confidence of the leaders of 
both political parties in his State and Nation. Realizing 
the value of his conservative and intelligent judgment, 
those in charge of his party's affairs appointed him 
secretary to the Republican congressional committee for 
three successive terms. His duties in this connection he 
faithfully carried out. 

I remember well the day he left Washington for French 
Lick Springs, Ind., where he hoped to regain his health. 
Little did we think when he bade us good-by that day 
and we admonished him to return to us shortly in his 
old-time health and vigor that that good-by was to be 
our last. The House at that time had under consideration 
tariff legislation in which he and his people were deeply 
interested. He hesitated to leave Washington then, 
having refused the entreaties of his friends to leave 

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months before in order to care for his health. He 
believed that his duty to his district required his 
presence here. He sacrificed his health and, as events 
proved, he lost his life as a result of this devotion to 
his constituents. 

Mr. Speaker, the outpouring of people of all denomi- 
nations and all political parties who attended the funeral 
services at his home in Paulsboro, N. J., on August 16 
last, and the evidence on all sides of the grief which was 
in their hearts, spoke more effectively than can any 
feeble words of mine of the affectionate esteem in which 
Mr. LoLDENSLAGER was held by those who had so signally 
honored him in life. 

A loyal friend, a generous opponent, a faithful Repre- 
sentative. 

1 will always count it a priceless heritage to have 
known him and to have served in Congress with him. 



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Address of Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina 

Mr. Speaker: With no hope of adding to the splendid 
tributes that have been paid to the memory of Henry 
Clay Loudenslager, but prompted by the high esteem 
in which I held the deceased, I must give some expression 
of that esteem on this occasion. 

My friendship for Mr. Loudenslager, overreaching party 
and sectional lines, originated in my admiration for his 
manly qualities and his official integrity. I was a mem- 
ber of the Committee on Pensions with him for more 
than seven years. His kindly and receptive heart held 
out no barriers to the true man who sought his friendship. 

Mr. Loudenslager was preeminently a man of affairs, 
intensely practical, and always active. In his public 
career was illustrated the type of the Representative of 
to-day. 

In what may be termed the heroic period of American 
history, when Representatives in this body became world- 
famed for their eloquence, their logic, and their fervor 
of speech, legislation was deliberative rather than active. 
A primitive country, an agricultural population scattered 
over vast territorj' that had not yet felt the touch of indus- 
trial development, were not only productive of men of 
the meditative and deliberative type, but laid few duties 
on the national legislator, except such as affected the 
shaping of a new government. Glorious as are the pages 
of our history, that are adorned by names of statesmen 
of this type, and priceless as is the legacy that they have 
left us, the fact that they were attuned to the task by 
environment should not be forgotten. Supreme in their 
day and generation, it is doubtful if they would have 

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harmonized with the fevered pulse beats of this electric 
age. 

In this daj' of steam and electricity when in travel 
months have been reduced to days, and men commune 
instantly for thousands of miles in mid-ocean, when the 
happenings of the civilized world maj^ be known each day 
by the humblest citizen, when commerce and manufac- 
turing have multiplied a thousandfold, legislation has 
changed with the changing times and the type of legis- 
lator has changed accordingly. So vast and varied are 
the business interests that now affect or are affected by 
government, that legislation is necessarily made up largely 
of business details, which has called into public service 
a large per cent of business men. Our friend was of this 
type — clear cut, decisive of speech, quick of action, and 
of mature judgment. He legislated ^^^th a purpose and 
witli a directness that was usually effective. 

Mr. Loudenslager was an orthodox Republican, but 
party allegiance carried him only where his judgment 
approved. 

Statesman, yet bound to truth of soul sincere. 
Of action faithful and in honor clear. 

There is a lesson of hope and promise to the youth of 
our land in the public service of our friend. Born on a 
farm in Gloucester County, N. J., May 22, 1852, he left his 
home at an early age to engage in business in Philadel- 
phia. He was in business for 10 years, when he was 
elected county clerk of Gloucester County, N. J. Then 
followed his election to the Fifty-third Congress and later 
his election as secretary of the Republican congressional 
campaign committee. He served continuously in Con- 
gress to the day of his death. A strong factor in his pro- 
motion was loyalty to his friends. This was a marked 
characteristic. He selected his friends with unerring 



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Address of Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina 

judgment, and he held them by constancy. To the intel- 
ligent young man of fixed and honest purpose, advance- 
ment is not accidental, but is the result of a perfectly nat- 
ural law. 

In every new responsibility assumed bj' Mr. Louden- 
SLAGER he proved worthy of the trust. Only the right can 
issue from an honest motive. The philosopher poet 
enunciated a principle as everlasting as the ages — that the 
man who is true to himself can not be false to anyone. 

But, Mr. Speaker, we must turn from the life work of 
the deceased to dwell for a few brief moments on the sad 
providence that has removed him from our midst. 

The march of civilization has done little to rob death 
of its terror. Stoicism may sear it over, philosophy may 
garnish it, and religion may point across the dark abyss 
to the other shore, but to the intelligent man it will ever 
be a grim and terrible monster. 

He who was the light and life of the world, the morn- 
ing star to which all coming generations will look for 
guidance, was also the Son of Man, and though the great 
bej'ond was to Him an open book, He approached the 
" valley and shadow " with human dread. In this He has 
taught us to value life, and when its mission is ended to 
lay it down, not lightly, but in the fear of God. 

Nothing can take away the pang that we feel in sepa- 
rating from those we love. The more intense our love the 
more trying the final separation. But a life well spent 
and love in life requited is a balm for the broken heart. 

Those whom the death of our friend touched most 
closely will not cease to lament their loss; but to recount 
his virtues will ever be a compensating pleasure. They 
gave to death what was mortal; they have with them the 
essence of his being, that which is immortal. 



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Address of Mr. Moore, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. Speaker: I have chosen to wait until others have 
spoken, because my relations with the late Henry C. 
LouDENSLAGER wcre of long duration, our personal friend- 
ship having extended ov«r nearly a third of a century. 
Mr. LouDENSLAGER represented the district in New Jersey 
in which I was born. He also was a native of that soil. 
I had therefore watched his career with more than ordi- 
nary interest. 1 knew him first as county clerk, and after 
his election as a Member of Congress aided in making 
him better known and appreciated on the Pennsylvania 
side of the Delaware River. It is therefore a matter of 
great satisfaction to me, knowing his early history as I 
knew it, to hear his praises sounded by men distinguished 
in national affairs, as those who have spoken to-day. 
The address of the distinguished senior Member from 
New Jersey [Mr. Gardner] attests the esteem in which 
Mr. LouDENSLAGER was held by those who associated with 
him in the New Jersey delegation. 

The ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, the 
gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Cannon], has paid a touch- 
ing tribute to him, whom he respected as an able legis- 
lator and a loyal friend; and among others who have 
spoken are the present and the former chairman of the 
Committee on Naval Affairs, the gentleman from Ten- 
nessee [Mr. Padgett] and the gentleman from Illinois 
[Mr. Foss], representing both of the great political 
parties, each of whom, rising above the spirit of parti- 
sanship, has given expression to the high esteem in 
which he held our departed colleague. I have been im- 
pressed by all these addresses, and particularly that of 

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our good friend, the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. 
Richardson], a typical son of the South and a brave 
soldier of the Confederacy, who succeeded Mr. Louden- 
slager as chairman of the Committee on Pensions. The 
significance of these speeches and of others made by his 
admiring friends evidence the strong position held by 
Mr. Loudenslager in this House and demonstrate the hold 
he had upon its good will. 

In view of all these kindly expressions, it is fair to say 
that when Mr. Loudenslager entered the Fifty-third Con- 
gress and started out upon that career which was to earn 
for him a national reputation there were those who had 
their misgivings as to the wisdom of sending an inex- 
perienced country boy to these great Halls; but, as step 
by step he progressed and as term after term he returned 
to this House, the doubts and fears as to his capacity for 
the work he had undertaken gave way to sentiments of 
confidence and admiration. He knew how to work, and 
he was not afraid to imdertake large tasks; he was skill- 
ful and quick to seize upon opportunities; he became the 
firm friend of Speaker Reed and was intrusted by that 
great man with the execution of many of the important 
details entering into the proceedings of Congress. He had 
the friendship of Speaker Henderson, and upon the ad- 
vent of Speaker Cannon had so developed as a useful 
factor in guiding legislation that he became one of the 
trusted men about the Speaker's chair. His activities 
invited the attention of the national leaders, and for 
many years he was the friend and associate of Mr. Sher- 
man, now Vice President of the United States, but then 
directing the congressional campaigns. He learned to 
know the congressional districts of the United States as 
intimately as he knew his own, and his effectiveness as 
a manager was generally recognized. 



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During the course of the addresses this afternoon it 
occurred to me that some lessons were to be drawn from 
the life of our lamented friend which might be of advan- 
tage to the j'eomanry as well as to the youth of the 
countrj'. First of all, the action of the first New Jersey 
district in regularly returning Mr. Loudenslager to Wash- 
ington demonstrated the wisdom of keeping a good man 
in Congress. If Mr. Loudenslager had confined his 
efforts solely to the first district of New Jersey his use- 
fulness would have been limited and might have ended 
with his first term. He preferred, however, to broaden 
his .sphere of influence. I well remember helping, in my 
feeble way, to strengthen his friendships upon the Penn- 
sylvania side of the noble Delaware. There were times 
when he helped us upon the Pennsylvania side, and there 
were times when we helped him upon the New Jersey 
side. But he reached out even beyond the boundarj^ lines 
of New Jersey and of Pennsylvania. He made friends 
everj'where, and in making these friends he was able to 
do tenfold for the people of his district what he would 
have been able to do had he plodded along in his solitary 
way. I remember that the people of New Jersey some- 
times hinted that the Representative of the first district 
had become " the seventh Member from Philadelphia," 
but I noticed then, as has been easily demonstrated, since 
I followed Mr. Loudenslager into Congress, that, while 
he was considerate of his friends in other districts and 
entertained in his heart a warm spot for Philadelphia, 
his statesmanship was never so broad that he did not first 
of all attend to the wants of " the folks at home." 

Reference has been made to the humble beginning of 
our departed colleague. Like many of us he was the 
product of the farm and the pathway of his early life 
was not strewn with roses. He struggled against unfavor- 
able conditions. He had to combat them and to over- 



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come them; his success in life was due to his industry, 
to the power of marshaling his forces, and to his capacity 
as an organizer. He was not only an organizer of 
business and of politics, he was an organizer of friend- 
ships. It has been said that he answered every letter. 
In his own way of stating it, he " always wrote the last 
letter." He watched the little things as well as the big 
things and never failed to keep in touch with his con- 
stituents. What liner lesson for the youth of the country 
than this — success based upon industry and performance 
of duty? Mr. Loudenslager was a public servant who 
deserved well of the people, and for 10 successive terms 
the people set their seal of approval upon him by sending 
him back to Congress. While they honored him they also 
assured themselves of an invaluable experience and of 
a devotion upon the part of their Representative that was 
not to be questioned. 

Mr. Loudenslager was a man of lovable traits. I can 
see him now entering the doorway yonder, with stalwart 
form and smiling countenance, passing down the center 
aisle to the Speaker's table, and there wheeling about to 
greet friends and survey the House. I observe the whis- 
pered conversation, the friendly quip, and the other evi- 
dences of a cheerful mind. Even in this memorial hour 
we can not overlook the associations of yesterdaj% the 
friendly handclasp and cheery tones of him who is gone. 

The former Speaker of the House has told us of his 
reluctance to attend memorial occasions. None of us 
relish the necessity which brings us into the realm of sor- 
row, but it is through such sorrow as settles round us 
now that we can best appreciate the cheer and the fellow- 
ship we once enjoyed. Indeed, we are met to praise and 
commend rather than to grieve and to pine. The fate of 
our friend is but the common fate of us all. There is but 
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are brought to a common level. Neither wealth nor pov- 
erty is treated differently. The luxurious Titanic sinks 
in the Polar seas, carrying with her the richest and the 
poorest. Steerage passengers or cabin de luxe, it makes 
no matter. All alike must face the great Creator of all. 

Rich and lowly, beggar and lord, over the bridge they go. 

And so, as we meet to memorialize our friend, it would 
seem better that we should look upon the brighter side; 
that we should think of the good he had done; that we 
should speak of his generous impulses. 

His life was not without its sorrows, not without its 
clouds; but neither pain nor sorrow nor dread of the evil 
day could rob him in life of those fine characteristics of 
fellowship and good cheer which made his friends cling 
to him " as with hooks of steel." 

One more thought. It is pardonable upon an occasion 
like this. We have had assembled here the representa- 
tives of great causes and of all parties. They have 
striven with each other in times of turmoil and in hours 
of bitterness, but there has been on this occasion a una- 
nimity of thought, a oneness of purpose — the sprinkling 
upon the grave of our departed friend the roses of love 
and appreciation. Would, Mr. Speaker, that we might 
practice more in daily life the precepts of this day, and 
that to the living, as the honors come and go, we might 
extend the garlands so often and so ungenerously reserved 
for the grave. 



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Address of Mr. Bates, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. Speaker : During the 11 years which I have had the 
honor of serving in the House of Representatives I have 
known no man who was more generally respected and 
held in higher esteem than Henry Clay Loidenslager. 
Having served with him for 7 years on the Committee on 
Naval Affairs, I have had ample opportunity to judge 
thoroughly and well his true character. No member of 
the committee possessed more accurate and minute 
knowledge of the needs of the Navy or of legislation 
brought forth by the Naval Committee from time to time 
than he. In the long, tedious hearings of each winter 
leading up to the framing and introduction of the naval 
appropriation bill, carrying its large amounts, no member 
of the committee followed more closely the statements of 
those appearing before us from the department than our 
departed brother. He seemed to feel the i-esponsibility 
resting upon him as one of the older Members in service 
of this House. 

In his earlier years he had been one of the officers of 
the courts of New Jersey and had become a student in 
accuracy and detail, which added to the value of his 
efforts as a national legislator. Although it was not gen- 
erally known, I learned within the last few years that he 
was one of the most laborious, hard-working Members 
who have ever sat in this Chamber. Any man who at- 
tends faithfully to the arduous duties often imposed upon 
Members of Congress and at the same time carries on with 
any degree of attention his own business affairs leads a 
strenuous life indeed. Is it any wonder that mortality in 
membership of the last few Congresses has been greater 
in proportion than that of our soldiers in the last war in 
which we were engaged? I count liim one of the martyrs 

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to that spirit of restless energy which has lately possessed 
the soul of so many Americans, and while splendid 
achievements have ensued, it has been at a great cost, even 
at the cost of life itself. 

With apparent health and strength, with prosperity and 
abundance in his pathway, with the highest honors his 
people could bestow showered upon him, with most happy 
and affectionate home relations, it seemed as though his 
honoi'able and useful career would have extended far 
beyond middle life; but "Men's ways are not God's ways 
and His purposes are past finding out." 

New Jersey has become conspicuous of late among the 
States for her steadfastness for retaining tried and trained 
Representatives in her service, and Mr. Loudenslager was 
an example of the carrying out of this policy. Had he 
lived out his present term he would have served his State 
and Nation in Congress 20 years. Very few men, even 
from New Jersey or the East, have served longer than he, 
and the people at home who knew him best stood by their 
Representative, notwithstanding attempts were made 
from time to time to nominate and elect others in his 
place. It needs hardly to be said that continuing a Rep- 
resentative in service for many years must mean that he 
has the quality of industry; that he devotes his attention 
to the personal wants of his constituents; that he must 
have those personal elements of kindness and courtesy 
which draw men to him and hold their friendship. 

Henry Clay Loudenslager in the daily walks of life was 
generous, kind, affable, affectionate to his friends, and 
considerate of all. He was endowed with a capacity to 
grasp and take an active part in the larger matters of leg- 
islation which affected the interests of his State as well 
as the country at large. He has been missed more than 
almost any man could have been who was a Member of 
this present Congress, and it is with a melancholy pleas- 
ure that I add my tribute to his memoiy. 

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Address of Mr. Wood, of New Jersey 

Mr. Speaker: I deem it a great privilege to add a few 
words to the many beautiful tributes that have to-day 
been paid to the memory of our deceased colleague, the 
late Henry C. Loudenslager. 

His high personal character, his valued public services, 
his sunny temperament, the positive character of his 
convictions, his fidelity to his official duties, his unflagging 
industry, his deep sense of loyalty to his friends have all 
been eloquentlj' referred to by those who have already 
spoken. 

For more than 7 years I had the pleasure of serving 
with him as a member of the delegation from New 
Jersey. The one thing that impressed me most during 
all that period in connection with Mr. Loudenslager was 
the close and unremitting attention that he always gave 
to his official duties. Few constituencies, I venture 
to say, have ever been better served than the first 
congressional district of New Jersey. 

To have been elected to 10 successive Congresses from 
the same district is an honor that has been accorded to 
but few Members of this body. That is the tribute that 
the people of his district, those among whom his life 
was spent, those who knew him best, his neighbors and 
fellow citizens, who had the opportunity of studying him 
at close range in the ordinary transactions of everyday 
life, rendered to the personal worth and public services 
of the Hon. Henry C. Loudenslager. 

The first congressional district, that Mr. Loudenslager 
represented, is one rich in manufacturing, commercial, 
and agricultural industries. It has vast and far-reaching 

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interests. It is a great, intelligent, and influential con- 
stituency; and to have met the expectations, to have 
measured up to the requirements of such a district for 
nearly a score of years is praise indeed. That Mr. 
Loudenslager did, as his successive elections to this 
House amply testify. 

His never-failing aff'ability made him hosts of friends, 
and his signal devotion to the service of his constituents 
secured for him their loyalty — their hearty and enthusi- 
astic support. 

Although he was a strong party man, intensely 
interested in his partj''s success, tireless in his efforts to 
achieve party victories, and serving as secretary of the 
Republican congressional committee in three successive 
campaigns, he never allowed his political affiliations to 
limit his friendships to this side of the Chamber. To his 
Republican and Democratic colleagues alike he was the 
same genial, cheerful, helpful associate and friend, ever 
ready with a cordial greeting, willing and even anxious to 
render a kindly office. The high regard in which he was 
held by his political opponents has been forcefully 
evidenced here to-day by the touching tributes paid to 
his memory by the chairman of the Committee on Naval 
Affairs, Mr. Padgett; the chairman of the Committee on 
Pensions, Judge Richardson; and others, to which we 
have all listened with so much interest. 

In his untimely death, at the height of what seemed to 
be the period of his greatest usefulness, his district has 
lost an alert, vigilant, faithful Representative, whose 
zeal for his constituents never tired; the State a faithful 
public servant, jealous at all times of her interests; and 
the Nation an able, conscientious, careful, and experi- 
enced legislator. 



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Address of Mr. Tuttle, of New Jersey 

Mr. Speaker : I can only bring to you the expression of 
sorrow all Jerseymen feel in the death of a distinguished 
citizen, an honored and able Representative of our State. 
To me, as a new Member of this House, the fact that the 
American Congress has paused to pay its tribute of 
respect to an associate who has dropped out of its life 
and association is an inspiration. I knew Henry C. 
Loudenslager only as he had made himself known to the 
people of New Jersey by his public service, and you who 
have known him in the intimate association of this 
Chamber, where men stand upon their own merits, where 
integrity, loyalty, rectitude of character and purpose 
alone count in your estimate of men, have paid him a 
tribute that will echo in the hearts of those who knew him 
in the closer and more intimate associations of his home 
and the district he so long represented. I came into these 
new relations and responsibilities after he had answered 
the last roll call, and I had not the pleasure of serving 
with him and knowing the man. I have never heard him 
spoken of as a brilliant man, but rather as an efhcient 
Representative. Brilliancy is not always essential to the 
best kind of public service, and the best in our friend- 
ships is generally the best in our statesmanship. It is the 
life that rings true that lingers longest with us. The 
pollen of that life touches ours and blossoms into the 
fragrant flowers of memory. It is the memory of Henry 
C. Loudenslager that we have in this eminently proper 
and sincere way enshrined in our hearts and records 
to-day. 



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Address of Mr. Clark, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: It is interesting to observe how Members 
of Congress come to be good personal friends, warm per- 
sonal friends, especially those belonging to different 
political parties. It is largely a matter of propinquity and 
association. Of course, similarity of tastes has a great 
deal to do with it. 

I shall always be proud of the fact that I have as many 
friends among the Republican Members as among the 
Democratic Members of the House. There were two 
things which brought me very early in my service into 
close relation with Henry Clay Loudenslager. In the 
first place, my father was born in New Jersey, close to 
where Atlantic City now stands. Naturally I felt an incli- 
nation to cultivate an acquaintance with the New Jersey 
Members on my father's account. In the second place, 
in the first Congress in which Mr. Loudenslager and I 
served we were both assigned to the Committee on Pen- 
sions, on which he remained and of which he finally 
became chairman. 

Service on the same committee naturally and inevitably 
brings men into close communication with each other, 
and they come to know each other more intimately, per- 
haps, in that relation than in any other congressional 
relation. Our work on that committee was pleasant and 
our relations became very close and remained so until 
the day of his death, although I left that committee after 
my first Congress. 

Mr. Loudenslager was neither a frequent nor a prolix 
speaker on the floor of the House. When he had any- 
thing to say, he stated it tersely, clearly, and with force. 

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When he was through, he quit. One of the great secrets 
of speech making is to know when to quit. He did not 
bore the House, and he usually secured what he wanted. 

He was a man of great common sense, of great industry, 
and was one of the most genial men in his manner of all 
those with whom I have served. He was on good terms, 
I believe, with every Member of the House, certainly with 
every Member with whom he had served long enough to 
become well acquainted. He was wise in counsel and was 
one of those upon whom Speaker Cannon leaned for 
support. 

He was an exceedingly useful Member of the House, 
and he grew in the estimation of his congressional fellows 
every day of his service. His death was a loss, not only 
to his own State, New Jersey, but to the country at large. 



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Address of Mr. Browning, of New Jersey 

Mr. Speaker: There can probably be no greater tribute 
paid to the character of Mr. Loudenslager than a mention 
of the fact that he was known and addressed as " Harry " 
by his friends, his neighbors, his business and political 
associates, and his comrades in all walks of life. And so 
it is of Harry Loudenslager that I shall speak briefly to- 
day, giving a short sketch of his career and adding a few 
sentences of personal remcmberance and appreciation. 

He came to Washington in 1893, a Member of the Fifty- 
third Congress, was reelected to every succeeding Con- 
gress, and would have served for 10 consecutive terms, or 
20 years, had he lived till the 4th day of March next. Only 
four of the present Members of this body have exceeded 
that service. He was the first man to serve more than 
two terms, or four years, from the first congi'essional dis- 
trict of New Jersey. 

The Fif tj'-lhird Congress was Democratic, and of course 
Mr. Loudensl.\ger was a minority Member during his first 
term, but in the next Congress he was assigned by Speaker 
Reed to the chairmanship of the Committee on Pensions 
and to membership on the Committee on Coinage, 
Weights, and Measures. He retained his chairmanship 
of the Committee on Pensions until the present Congress, 
but was transferred from the Committee on Coinage, 
Weights, and Measures to the Committee on Naval Affairs, 
of which he became the ranking member. 

Beginning with his first term he was a member of the 
Republican congressional committee. In 1895 he was 
placed on the executive committee, and in 1906 he became 
the committee's secretary and for a time acting chairman. 



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He also served as secretary of the Republican caucus. 
He attained eminence in the Order of Red Men, was a 
thirty-second degree Mason, a prominent Odd Fellow, and 
a member of the Benevolent Order of Elks. He was a 
member of the Union League of Philadelphia and the 
Republican Clubs of New York and Camden. He was at 
all times an influential factor in the social, industrial, and 
commercial life in the cities of Camden and Philadelphia 
and throughout the counties of his district. 

Mr. LouDENSLAGER was a man who believed that " an 
ounce of work was worth more than a ton of talk," and 
he could be found at liis desk from early morn till late at 
night solving the intricate and perplexing problems that 
must ever come to the public man who serves liis country 
loyally and faithfully. 

As chairman of the Committee on Pensions his heart 
was in his work and his sympathy was always with the 
petitioner, and while his judgment and duty oftentimes 
compelled him to stand for and render adverse report, 
the performance of such duty grieved him deeply, and 
I have heard him many times express regret that he felt 
obliged to take adverse action in any case affecting a 
soldier or the widow of a soldier. 

His pride of country and devotion to the upbuilding of 
our great Navy was shown year after year as the annual 
appropriation bill was framed. His work was mainly 
done in the committee room, but his remarks on the floor 
of the House were in no uncertain tone. A paragraph 
from his speech of April 17, 1900, will illustrate his con- 
victions, which never left him. He said in supporting 
the naval bill: 

I deem it an honor to be a member of the Committee on Naval 
Affairs, whose work forms so important a part of the duties of 
the House of Representatives, which has to do, perhaps, more 
than any other committee with providing means for defending 



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the national honor and protecting the vast business interests 
of the United States, both at home and abroad. 

I derive no little pride from the fact that since 1 have been 
associated with that committee I have stood at all times with 
those of my colleagues who have steadfastly pursued the policy 
of building up a navy for the United States that will be adequate 
to the needs of so great and glorious a Nation; for if ever a 
public policy has been vindicated, if ever the foresight of man 
in providing for the exigencies of the future has by subsequent 
events been demonstrated to have been wise, the history of the 
year 1898 can not be truthfully written without according honor 
and credit to those public men who since 1883 have planned or 
aided in the schemes for the construction of a navy for the 
United States that would be commensurate with the urgent needs 
of this, the most important branch of the public defense. 

" Loudy," as he was affectionately called by his closer 
friends, was not only repeatedly honored by his district 
and by his associates in Congress, but by many others, 
and on occasions that are rarely equaled. One of these 
affairs was an interstate testimonial in the form of a din- 
ner at the Union League Club, in Philadelphia, Decem- 
ber 13, 1902. At the dinner were the governors of the 
States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware; the 
mayor of Philadelphia; the entire membership, both 
Republican and Democratic, of the Naval Affairs and 
Pensions Committees of the House — 21 States in all being 
represented. 

During recent years his office, as you know, was at the 
end of the corridor fronting this Hall and was the Mecca 
of his fellow Members and newspaper men, who seldom 
passed his door without stopping a moment. It was said 
that his door was always open and that he was always in. 

But his record as a public oflicial is too well known to 
need my further comments. He served his country faith- 
fully and well, performed every duty with zeal and 
fidelity, and gained the appreciation and gratitude of all. 



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Address of Mr. Browning, of New Jersey 

from the President of the United States to his humblest 
constituent. 

In 1906 Mr. Loudenslager was made secretary of the 
congressional committee, and during the campaign of 
that year, as well as those of 1908 and 1910, he was found 
at headquarters in New York City giving his best energies 
to the work of the campaign. 

In 1906, because of the illness of Chairman Sherman 
during the closing weeks of the campaign, all the work 
devolved on the secretary. Again, in 1908 and 1910 he 
had full charge of eastern headquarters and literally gave 
his life to what he considered his duty, sacrificing his 
health and his personal interests that he might make the 
best efforts possible to perform the task imposed upon 
him by his part}' colleagues. 

In this work he was the same genial and approachable 
Harry Loudenslager as at Washington. He was a master 
of detail, had infinite patience with callers, used exact 
judgment in his decisions, and was indefatigable and tire- 
less in his efforts to gain success for his colleagues. He 
was usually the first to appear at headquarters in the 
morning and often worked far into the night. No one 
had a clearer perception of the exact conditions of affairs, 
and his close prediction of the results in 1906 and 1908 
showed his grasp of the situation. In 1910 he made no 
forecast of the result, and hopeful as were his associates, 
we all felt that his judgment spelled defeat. 

Because of this close attention to work at headquarters 
he jeopardized his own election in 1910, and for a while 
on election night there was doubt of his success. An in- 
cident of that night will serve to illustrate the love he 
gained and held from all who were associated with him in 
his work. It was about 2 o'clock in the morning, and the 
returns from his district were far from satisfactoiy. So 
interested in his success were his friends that the rooms 



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at headquarters were filled with not only members of his 
family and close friends from home, but everyone of the 
working people at headquarters had remained, each eager 
to congratulate " Loudy " on his reelection. It was per- 
haps nearly 3 a. m. when, after conflicting messages indi- 
cating now victory and again defeat, positive word came 
from an authoritative source that he was reelected by a 
safe plurality. Immediately a shout went up from every 
throat, and each and every one crowded around to shake 
the popular and lovable man by the hand, with a word or 
two of sincere congratulation, and then the tired but 
happy group of friends and office associates and em- 
ployees departed with perhaps the most cordial good 
night that " Loudy " ever heard. 

Of his personal traits generosity easily took the lead, 
and many a poor dweller in his district was made happier 
and more comfortable because of his help, given without 
the knowledge of any but the recipient. During the 
campaign of 1910, when everything seemed to be going 
wrong, he called us in one day to show us a letter from 
an old lady who had known his mother, and who had 
sent him her photograph with the wish that she had a 
vote to give him at election. I learned afterwards that 
Harry had mailed that poor woman $100, and the 
grateful letter he received in return he would not have 
parted with for another hundred. 

Personally, I am at a loss for words to pay the tribute 
I would wish to pay to the memory of one of my dearest 
and closest friends. 

I came here during Mr. Loudenslager's second term 
and remained in his confidence and closest companion- 
ship till the end. 1 shared in his work, both here, in New 
York at headquarters, and at home. I rejoiced with him 
in his triumphs. I consulted with him in his contests. 
I assisted him and cooperated with him when and where 

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I could. He was " Harry " to me and I was " Bill " to 
him. My loss and grief at his departm-e were too great 
to be measured by words, and, though the people of the 
first congressional district of New Jersey have chosen 
me to fill his place as best 1 can. I would most willingly 
forego my own position as his successor could he be 
restored to us. But as an all-wise Providence has 
ordained to the contrary, we can and will hold dear the 
memory of Harry Loudenslager, and we can and will 
be inspired to greater and better efforts ourselves because 
of his splendid example as a man, a citizen, and a 
Representative. 

adjournment 

And then, in accordance with the resolution heretofore 
adopted (at 2 o'clock and 25 minutes p. m.), the House 
adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, May 6, 1912, at 12 
o'clock noon. 



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Monday, August li, 1911. 

Mr. Briggs. I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate the 
resolutions from the House of Representatives relative 
to the death of my late colleague in that body. 

The President pro tempore. The Chair lays before the 
Senate resolutions from the House of Representatives, 
which will be read. 

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 

In the House of Representatives, 

August 12, 1911. 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Henry C. Loudenslager, a Representative from 
the State of New Jersey. 

Resolved, That a committee of 20 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be author- 
ized and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for 
carrying out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the 
necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the 
contingent fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the Senate and also transmit a copy thereof to the family of the 
deceased. 

Mr. Martine of New Jersey. Mr. President, as a resi- 
dent and fellow citizen of New Jersey, I would like to 
say a word. 

The grim reaper has again done its work, this time in 
the other House of Congress. Had Henry Clay Louden- 
slager lived his term out he would have served the Gov- 
ernment of the United States consecutively 20 years. 



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All who knew him, everybody who had touch with or 
an inclination for politics in the Commonwealth of New 
Jersey, knew kindly and well the loving, genial, and 
hospitable Harry Loudenslager. The State of New Jer- 
sey in his death has lost a splendid son, society a delight- 
ful and loving companion, these United States a grand 
patriot and a broad statesman. New Jersey stops to weep 
at his bier and pay the last tribute it can in wishing for 
his family God's speed and God's blessing to him. 

Mr. Briggs. Mr. President, I offer the following resolu- 
tions, and ask for their adoption. 

The President pro tempore. The Senator from New 
Jersey submits resolutions, which will be read by the 
Secretary. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 137) were read and unani- 
mously agreed to, as follows: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the 
announcement of the death of the Hon. Henrv Clay Louden- 
slager, late a Representative from the State of New Jersey. 

Resolved, That a committee of nine Senators be appointed by 
the Vice President to join the committee appointed on the part 
of the House of Representatives to take order for superintending 
the funeral of Mr. Loudenslager at Paulsboro, N. J. 

Resolved. That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and to the family 
of the deceased. 

The President pro tempore appointed as the committee 
on the part of the Senate under the second resolution Mr. 
Briggs, Mr. Marline of New Jersey, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Curtis, 
Mr. Brandegee, Mr. Oliver, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Williams, and 
Mr. Hitchcock. 

Mr. Briggs. I offer the following resolution, and ask 
for its adoption. 

The President pro tempore. The resolution will be 

read. 



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The Secretary read the resolution, as follows: 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 

The President pro tempore. The question is on agree- 
ing to the resolution submitted by the Senator from New 
Jersey. 

The resolution was unanimously agreed to, and (at 
5 o'clock and 18 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned 
until to-morrow, Tuesday, August 15, 1911, at 12 o'clock 
meridian. 



Thursday, February 27, 1913. 
Mr. Briggs. I desire to give notice that on March 1 I 
shall ask the Senate to consider resolutions commemo- 
rative of the life and public character of Hon. Henry C. 
Loudenslager, late a Member of the House of Representa- 
tives from the State of New Jersey. 

Saturday, March 1, 1913. 

The Senate met at 10 o'clock a. m. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
the following prayer: 

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we thank Thee 
for the gracious Providence which brings us to this day 
of solemn and reverent memorj\ As we recall the life 
and public service of him whom we this day com- 
memorate, we pray Thee to inspire our minds and to 
give utterance to our lips that we may fitly honor the 
life which Thou hast called to Thy nearer presence and 
to Thy higher service. 

We pray Thee, our Father, to comfort those that 
mourn. Uphold them by Thy heavenly grace and grant 
that neither the height of remembered joys nor the depth 

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of sorrows that can not be forgotten, nor the present with 
its burdens, nor the future with its loneliness may be able 
to separate them from the love of God which is in Christ 
Jesus our Lord. 

In the name of Him who abolished death and brought 
life and immortality to light, hear Thou our prayer. 
Amen. 

Mr. Gallinger took the chair as President pro tempore 
under the previous order of the Senate. 

The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of 
yesterday's proceedings, when, on request of Mr. Smoot, 
and by unanimous consent, the further reading was 
dispensed with and the Journal was approved. 

Mr. Briggs. Mr. President, 1 ask the Chair to lay before 
the Senate the resolutions of the House of Representatives 
on the death of the late Representative Loudenslager of 
New Jersey. 

The President pro tempore (Mr. Gallinger). The 
Chair lays before the Senate resolutions of the House of 
Representatives, which will be read. 

The Secretary read the resolutions of the House as 
follows : 

In the House of Representatives, 

May 5, 1912. 
Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
Hon. Henry C. Loudenslager, late a Member of the House from 
the State of New Jersey. 

. Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall 
stand adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to 
the Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the family of the deceased. 



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Mr. Briggs. Mr. President, I submit the resolutions 
which I send to the desk, and I ask for their adoption. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 496) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
follows : 

Resolved, That the Senate expresses its profound sorrow on 
account of the death of the Hon. Henry C. Loudenslager, late a 
Member of the House of Representatives from the State of New 
Jersey. 

Resolved, That the business of the Senate be now suspended 
in order that fitting tribute may be paid his high character and 
distinguished public services. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of 
the deceased. 



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Address of Mr. Briggs, of New Jersey 

Mr. President: It is significant of the affection 
and esteem which Henry Clay Loudenslager inspired 
among the men with whom he came in contact that, when 
memorial addresses were delivered in his honor in the 
House of Representatives last May, a score of Members 
representing the North and the South, the East and the 
West, and the two great political parties vied in paying 
genuine tribute to him as a man and a colleague. It is 
significant, too, that through his 18 years of national serv- 
ice he was the intimate of men like Reed, Henderson, 
Sherman, and Cannon, and that no Member of Congress 
ever enjoyed in fuller measure the friendship of both 
sides of that Chamber. The Members who honored his 
memory that day numbered those who had grown gray 
in the service of the House and those who were serving 
their first term as legislators. No man was more catholic 
in his friendships, more ready to stand by his old and tried 
associates, or more eager to give advice and kindly admo- 
nition to the youngest Member. 

The life of Henry Clay Loudenslager, beginning on a 
New Jersey farm and ending as one of the strong men of 
the House of Representatives, is an inspiration to the 
youth of his State. He was born on a farm in Gloucester 
County, near the town of Paulsboro, in 1852, and early be- 
came identified with the public affairs of his county. His 
first ofiice was clerk of Gloucester County, and from that 
place of trust he went to the broader field of national 

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politics. His district first sent him to Congress by a mod- 
est plurality as a Member of the Fifty-third Congress. It 
returned him two years later with a handsome plurality, 
and for 10 consecutive times the first congressional district 
sent him back to Washington. At the time of his death 
there were less than 10 Members of the House who had 
served for a greater number of consecutive terms. 

As a Member of Congress Mr. Loudenslager was not 
active in debate, but accurate. He preferred the work of 
the committee room to distinction on the floor, but when 
he did address the House, lacked none of the qualities that 
give a man distinction as an orator. His greatest pride 
was his identification with the work of the Committee on 
Naval Affairs, and in his 18 years of service no man in 
Congress was more instrumental in building up the Amer- 
ican Navy from an insignificant tonnage to the rank of 
the third greatest naval power. 

The Navy had no more ardent champion, and when the 
War with Spain came Henry Loudenslager had played 
his part in giving to the Nation an efiicient arm of the 
service. As in his advocacy of a strong Navy, he was also 
sound on all the big economic questions that Congress had 
to meet in his 18 years of legislative life. He was a be- 
liever in a protective tariff and true to the support of its 
principles, and was always found on the right side of the 
big questions that called for solution in that span of years. 
He was identified through all his service with pension 
legislation, and gave to its onerous work and heavy re- 
sponsibilities sound business judgment, justice, and sym- 
pathy for the men who bore the brunt of the Civil War. 
There is no question that his devotion to his hcaN-y and 
increasing duties and his conscientious performance of 
them hastened his death. And in his death the House lost 
a Member of the type that can ill be spared and its Mem- 
bers lost a generous and sincere friend. 



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Address of Mr. Briggs, of New Jersey 

Mr. LouDENSLAGER was a partisan in politics, but in the 
ranks of his political opponents he was held in as high 
esteem as in his own party. He believed in organization 
and in the party caucus, and in his last years in the House 
was secretary of the Republican caucus. He possessed 
rare political acumen and played a large part in his 
party's councils. In 1906, while acting as secretary of the 
Republican congressional committee, the duties of the 
chairman fell upon him because of the poor health of 
James S. Sherman, and in 1908 he did efficient service in 
the same capacity. He was placed in full charge of the 
eastern headquarters in 1908 and 1910, and the victories of 
1906 and 1908 owed much to him. 

No man served his constituency to better purpose and 
no man enjoyed its confidence in greater measure. While 
tireless in his attention to the needs of his district and his 
State, he was broad enough and well equipped enough to 
give the same indefatigable attention to national prob- 
lems. His domestic life was flawless, his political life free 
from the taint of suspicion, and he was a man who ab- 
horred the demagogue and the self-seeker and who held 
his legions of friends closer year by year through the gen- 
erous, sincere, and admirable traits of his personal 
character. 



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Address of Mr. Burton, of Ohio 

Mr. President: The Sixty-second Congress has an 
unprecedented record in the number of deaths of its 
Members. It would seem that this is more than a mere 
coincidence, that it indicates the increasing strain and 
stress of public life. Indeed, if we compare the work 
of a Member of the House of Representatives or of the 
Senate with that of anyone engaged in one of the pro- 
fessions or in any other kind of life, the hours of labor, 
the manifold demands and the degree of worry are very 
considerably more in a legislative career. Year by year 
it would seem that these demands upon us are increasing, 
and that a greater care of health and if possible some 
lessening of the duties which rest upon us should be 
secured. 

Mr. LouDENSLAGER was a man who seemed to have a 
perfect physique and to enjoy the best of health. He was 
always cheerful. During the 15 years in which I was 
acquainted with him he never complained a day of indis- 
position. Indeed it was characteristic of him that he was 
always genial, always companionable. 

Mr. President, his principal record will be that of an 
active political manager. He was during the greater part 
of his congressional service a member of the Republican 
national congressional committee. As such he enjoyed 
the friendship and confidence of three Presidents of the 
United States— President McKinley, President Roosevelt, 
and President Taft, and he was also an intimate associate 
of Vice President Sherman. 

A certain amount of obloquy in this time rests upon 
the politician or political manager. He is an object of 
censure and sometimes of ridicule, and not infrequently 

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it is claimed that his methods are devious. I do not 
believe there was ever one breath of suspicion against 
Mr. LouDENSLAGER. Though he was like a fiery gladiator 
in political contests, he always had a smile and a ready 
handshake for his political opponents and enjoyed their 
personal confidence. During nearly all of the time when 
he was a member of this committee his efforts were 
marked by success. I remember conversing with him 
during the disastrous campaign of 1910, and I noted some 
degree of discouragement and a much less amount of 
confidence than had characterized him in the campaigns 
from 1896 to 1908; yet he bore the prospective punishment 
which his party was to receive bravely, with confidence 
that such reverses as might come would not be per- 
manent, and that the principles which he had cherished 
so long would still retain their vitality. 

I wish to repeat, Mr. President, that there was no breath 
of suspicion against him in his management of political 
campaigns, and that popular ideas are often wrong with 
reference to a candidate. If there is anything question- 
able in political management, it, like all other e^dls in 
the body politic, is principally due to the people them- 
selves, to their inattention, to the necessity for constant 
vigilance, the great amount of labor and exhortation in 
arousing interest and bringing the people to perform their 
political duties. 

In this branch of work Mr. Loudenslager did not shrink. 
He was always ready for any campaign, with its turmoil 
and its varied activities, to strike the hardest blows which 
a political leader can employ. 

Nor was it as a political manager that his time was 
occupied. He was a careful legislator, a man who was 
always ready in the committee room, faithful and punc- 
tual in attendance, a devoted and careful student of great 
questions of governmental policy. 



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We all regret to learn of his death. We mourn his loss. 
We mourn him as one of exceptional friendliness and 
good-heartedness. We mourn him as a man who had a 
multitude of friends and few, if any, enemies. 

The last years of his life were rendered sad by the death 
of his only son. Possibly this untimely loss may have 
hastened Mr. Loudenslager's death. 

His record is known in New Jersey and in the Nation 
as a valiant fighter. for the principles which he espoused. 
He was a man who in all the varied walks of life com- 
manded respect, and he has left a record in public and 
private life which is stainless and worthy of all praise. 



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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 

Mr. President: The exercises of to-day emphasize the 
mortality that has afflicted the present Congress. We 
have to-day eulogized eight Members who have passed 
away, and it is striking that not one of those Members 
had reached the allotted span of three-score years and 
ten. They have all been taken in their prime. Most if 
not all of them had much to look forward to. We who 
knew them had every reason to believe that each had 
many years of usefulness yet before him. They are gone. 
Their life's work is ended. 

I do not propose to philosophize as to why this has hap- 
pened. I can add nothing to what has already been said. 
After all our philosophizing and speculation we still con- 
front a mystery unsolvable in human experience. I 
simply want to say a word in regard to one whom I first 
met when I entered Congress. I entered the House in the 
Fifty-sixth Congress. Mr. Loudenslager was one of the 
first men I met. He was at that time one of the Repub- 
lican leaders and influential in the counsels of the party 
and party organization. In the House, while strong 
friendships are formed and intimate relations estab- 
lished, it is different from this body. There the member- 
ship is large in number and here it is small. There 
service is upon few committees, generally only one or 
two, and here on many. Here we come in daily contact 
with many of our fellow Members in the work of com- 
mittees; we become acquainted with them in the various 
departments of our legislative work. 

During my 10 years of service in the House of Repre- 
sentatives, when Mr. Loudenslager was also a Member, 
he and I never served upon the same committee. He 
was chairman of the Pensions Committee and a member 



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of the Naval Committee. By reason of the interest of 
my State in naval matters we were brought in close con- 
tact, as well as by reason of the prominent part he took 
in the political organization of the House. 

As has been said by the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Bur- 
ton], he was a very genial man, sociable, friendly, and 
accommodating. He was an active, industrious, energetic 
man, looking after the interests of his people, and 
especially of his district, and especially after the interests 
of the Navy. He was very patriotic, and believed in- 
tensely in a strong Navy for our country. He took a 
great interest in that arm of the national defense. He 
was always prepared to defend the naval appropriation 
bill and to resist any assault that might be made upon 
what he considered the necessary arm of the national 
defense. 

He was a strong partisan. He believed in organization 
and the party caucus. He always accepted the party 
decrees and followed and upheld them. 

He was strong in personal friendships. He was always 
ready to help and assist his fellow Members and very 
considerate of new Members, and I remember with much 
pleasure the many courtesies he extended to me. Take 
him all in all, he was a most valued Member of the House 
of Representatives, a splendid man, a splendid citizen, 
a man whose friendship it was a privilege to have, a man 
whose memory is an incentive to higher endeavor and 
better work in behalf of the country and the interests of 
our people. His work as a legislator fully justified the 
confidence of his constituents and the honors they con- 
ferred on him. 

I am glad to have had the opportunity to know him and 
to have served with him. 1 regret his untimely taking 
off. I am grateful for the opportunity on this solemn 
occasion to pay this simple tribute to his memory and 
to the friendship that I prized so highly. 



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Address of Mr. Curtis, of Kansas 

Mr. President: It was in the Fiftj^-third Congress that 
Henry Clay Loudenslager began his service in the House 
of Representatives, and it was at the beginning of this 
Congress that I first knew him. Our service together 
continued until the Sixtieth Congress, and in that time I 
came to know him intimately and well and to esteem him 
highly both as a friend and as a legislator. 

His was a character to inspire confidence and attract 
friends, and those of us who came daily into contact 
with him in the House and out, unite in bearing testi- 
mony to his cheerful good nature, his kindliness, and his 
integrity. Though a partisan, he never carried his party 
preferences into his personal relations, and his friends 
were many, even though differing in political belief. 
Because of his ability to do things, his rise to influence in 
the House was rapid, and it was not long before he made 
himself felt both on the floor of that body and in the 
councils of his party, and his advice was sought on many 
and varied important questions. 

He was chosen secretary' of the Republican national 
congressional committee in 1906 and served in that 
capacity until 1909, when he was selected as the chair- 
man of the committee. He worked early and late and 
with marked success for his party and for a united 
organization in the House of Representatives. 

His services to his district, his State, and his country 
can not be measured in words. He labored industriously 
in and out of season for the good of all and accomplished 
much which lives after him. His friends were sincere in 
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him, and the Nation possessed in him a son who gave of 
his devotion and his ability without stint. No sacrifice 
was demanded of him in public affairs which he did not 
cheerfully and willingly meet. 

Although having long been in public life he was, first 
of all, a business man and believed in business methods 
in public affairs. He was interested in the welfare 
of the people at large, and his knowledge of events was 
thorough, and his action was taken from a broad and 
conservative viewpoint. 

Henry Clay Loudenslager was a patriotic citizen, a 
devoted husband, a true and loyal friend. His going was 
mourned, his memory is revered and will ever abide with 
those who knew him, as to know him was to love him. 



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Address of Mr. Oliver, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. President : Henry Clay Loudenslager, Representa- 
tive in Congress from the first district of New Jersey, died 
on the 12th day of August, 1911. He was less than 60 
years old and had served in Congress for nearly 20 years. 
For some time previous his health had been failing and 
Ms death was no surprise, though it came as a shock to the 
thousands of friends he had made during his long public 
service. My acquaintance with Mr. Loudenslager was 
almost altogether of a personal nature, as I came but little 
into contact with him in connection with his services as a 
Representative in Congress. I first met him in 1906, when 
he was secretai-y of the Republican congressional com- 
mittee and virtually chairman by reason of Mr. Sherman's 
illness. His personal traits were such as to endear him 
to all with whom he came in contact. He was gentle in 
demeanor, modest and easy in his intercourse with men, 
and conciliation was the keynote of his disposition; but 
underlying all this was a strength and vigor of character 
well understood by all friends, but not apparent to those 
whose intercourse with him was but casual. Whatever 
he undertook to do he did well, and the extent of his ap- 
preciation by those at home who knew him best is shown 
by his repeated election for 10 terms, a length of service 
excelled by only four of those who served with him in the 
present Congress. He was a strong believer in party 
organization and the maintenance of party spirit. He 
was a standpat Republican, with all that the name implies, 
because he believed it was to his country's interest to steer 
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state, and by adhering to which the Republican Party had 
maintained its supremacy during more than half a 
century. 

He was a strong man, modest in his ambitions, gentle 
in his character, and altogether lovable. Peace to his 
ashes. 



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Address of Mr. Martine, of New Jersey 

Mr. President: I speak not to-night of Harry Louden- 
slager's achievements in the Halls of Congress, or on the 
stump, or on the platform, but I speak to-night of Harry 
Loudenslager as a friend and a citizen of New Jersey. 

Harry Loudenslager represented the first district of 
New Jersey. He was Harry to us all, a genial, generous, 
big-hearted man. Everyone who knew him loved him, 
for Harry was everybody's friend. We did not agree in 
politics. I have combated him a hundred times on the 
stump, but never lost sight of his generosity nor his big 
and glorious humanity. 

He said to me when I was stumping in his part of the 
State, the southern part of New Jersey, "We are wide 
apart in political contests, but after all we have but one 
ambition, one hope, one aim, and that is to help our coun- 
try and our fellow man." What a glorious aim, what a 
holy purpose was that, my countrymen. 

In the State of New Jersey there are literally thousands 
who would bear cheerful testimony to his ever-generous 
hand. When storm and sleet without battered window 
panes, the cheery glow of many a hearthstone could be 
traced to the liberal purse and generous hand of Harry 
Loudenslager. 

His death seemed untimely, for he was but a boy. 
Sweet thoughts and loving memories are the treasures left 
by Harry Loudenslager. That God's blessing may come 
to him and his family, Mr. President, is my supplication 
and my prayer. 



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FUNERAL SERVICES 

[From the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia, Wednesday, August 16, 1911.] 



Congressmen, Senators, State officials, and more than 
2,000 other persons this afternoon attended the funeral 
of Congressman Henry C. Loudenslager from his home 
in Paulsboro, N. J. More than 100 large floral designs 
were tributes to the man who had represented the first 
New Jersey congressional district for the past 20 years. 

The special train carrying the congressional party from 
Washington reached Paulsboro at 12.45 o'clock this after- 
noon. Besides the official representatives of the House 
and Senate a number of other Congressmen and Sen- 
ators, accompanied by their wives, came on to the funeral. 
The large party was conveyed in cabs to the Loudenslager 
residence. 

After the Congressmen had passed by the bier the 
funeral services were started shortly after 1 o'clock by 
the Rev. Alexander Corson, pastor of the Paulsboro 
Methodist Church. Following the services the body was 
carried to its final resting place in Eglington Cemetery, 
where prayers were said by Mr. Corson. 

The cemetery was crowded w^ith people, including 
some of the most noted men of the countrj% who rubbed 
shoulders with people who had barely known Mr. 
Loudenslager. 

The Loudenslager residence was filled with the floral 
designs. They included a large wreath from Secretary 
of the 'Navy Meyer, a wreath of roses from the Republican 
national congressional committee, another large wreath 



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from the House of Representatives, and 50 American 
Beauty roses from the pallbearers. 

Other floral oflferings were sent by a number of Con- 
gressmen in Washington; the Camden Republican Club; 
David Baird; New Jersey Republican Club at Washing- 
ton; Jewelers' Club of Philadelphia; State Senator Hand, 
of Cape May; John Burleigh, vice president of the public- 
service corporation; State Senator G. W. F. Gaunt; 
Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Woodbury; Delaware 
Tribe of Red Men; and the Dewey Hotel, of Washington, 
where Mr. Loudenslager was accustomed to reside while 
in the National Capital. 

The House of Representatives was officially represented 
by Bepresentatives Bates and Butler, of Pennsylvania; 
Roberts, of Massachusetts; Padgett, Tennessee; Cannon, 
McKinley, and Rodenberg, of Illinois; Floyd, Missouri; 
Aiken, South Carolina; Cravens, Arkansas; and Camp- 
bell, Kansas. The senatorial committee consisted of Sen- 
ators Briggs, of New Jersey, and Curtis, of Kansas. 

On the special train were also all of the leading Repub- 
licans of Camden Count>% including nearly every county 
official, who boarded it at Camden. The Camden court- 
house was almost deserted, as was the city hall. The 
special train stopped only at Woodburj', where a number 
of mourners from South Jersey boarded it. 

The body of Congressman Loudenslager was on view 
this morning shortly after 9 o'clock in the parlor of his 
home. As soon as the doors were opened there was a 
steady stream of people passing in and out of the house. 
Nearly all kinds of business in the town is suspended for 
the day and nearly every resident joined the distinguished 
visitors in attending the funeral. 

The pallbearers were David Baird, William J. Brown- 
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of Camden; George D. Whitney, a glass manufacturer 
of Glassboro; Lawrence W. Sickler, postmaster of Glass- 
boro; and Wilson D. Gill, postmaster of Paulsboro. 

The officers of the Great Council of Red Men of the 
State of New Jersey, Delaware Tribe of Red Men of 
Paulsboro, Camden Lodge of Elks, Paulsboro Lodge of 
Odd Fellows, and Camden Republican Club attended iii 
a body. 






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